The Port of Portland approved a plan Wednesday to pay shipping companies to continue calling at the port. The total payout is capped at one million dollars.
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Freighter at anchor in the Columbia River off Kelly Point.
Port spokesman Josh Thomas says it's needed to offset the cost increases and productivity losses that are happening as a result of the dispute between longshore workers and the company that operates Terminal 6 - International Container Terminal Services.
"We don't see it as a solution by any stretch of the imagination, but more of a temporary stop gap."
E-mails to International Container Terminal Services were not immediately returned.
A statement from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union said ICTS has mismanaged operations and replaced a positive work environment with a hostile one.
