Events

The three new $35 million ship-to-shore cranes are expected to be operational in the summer of 2022 and will be the tallest to date for Port Houston, standing at 158 feet (48 meters) under the spreader and will be capable of handling 18,000 TEU-sized container ships. The three cranes will bring Port...

Dear Sisters and Brothers: The Southeastern Dock & Marine Council – ILA is presenting an ILA Women’s Conference in Jacksonville FL March 3-5, 2022 in the South bank Jacksonville Riverwalk Marriott Hotel 1515 Prudential Drive Jacksonville, FL 32207 Twelve reimbursement scholarships of...

As the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. prepared to launch the Poor People’s Campaign in 1968, he traveled to Memphis several times to support striking black sanitation workers. On February 1, two Memphis sanitation workers were crushed to death when the trash compression mechanism in their tr...

Dear Friends: Martin Luther King Jr. would be 93 this year. When Reverend King was brutally assassinated 54 years ago, our country was attempting to reckon with the horrible legacy of slavery and the Civil War aftermath of “Jim Crow”. There was a period following his death of a united go...

Dear Friends: Here we are on the eve of a new year, already! It seems like we just started 2021, but now we start 2022.  We hoped with the onset of proven safe vaccinations, we would have escaped this thing called “Covid”. Fortunately, for those vaccinated and “boosterized”, the Omicron var...

Great news for the ILA and Cooper/Ports America (C/PA).  There is a lot of international cargo being moved from vessels to facilities by the ILA at Houston City Docks with logistics being provided by C/PA to get the cargoes out to the US consumers! Below is a list of vessels working today at the Ho...

Dear Friends: This Christmas Eve recalls the joy and fellowship of this great ILA. Barbara and I extend our best wishes for a wonderful, prayerful Christmas Holiday. This is a time to reflect on our blessings and be thankful for our bounty. Please be safe and stay healthy as we look forward to a bet...

Dear Friends: We celebrate our second Thanksgiving with the pandemic still a source of concern. We continue to mourn the loss of our loved ones and colleagues this awful virus has taken from us or made ill. But this Thanksgiving we have a weapon to fight the virus back. The vaccination process has b...