ICTSI departs empty Portland
The Port of Portland and Philippine terminal operator International Container Terminal Services, Inc (ICTSI) are parting ways. ICTSI has had an unhappy time at the US west coast port with no major clients – and considerable labour issues – at its Terminal 6 facility for the past year.
Severing its ties with the American port, ICTSI has agreed to pay $11.45m to the port and return $10m of equipment it bought when it took over management of the river facility.
“We were not very excited about the prospect of sitting around for the next five to 10 years with an empty terminal just collecting rent,” port executive director Bill Wyatt said yesterday. “It became clearer and clearer this was not going to get resolved anytime soon.”
The port said it has no plans to seek other terminal operators to run the site, preferring to run it by itself as it did do for many years before ICTSI came on the scene.
ICTSI originally signed a 25-year deal with Portland back in 2010, paying $4.5m a year after an initial downpayment of $8m.
Earlier this year, ICTSI also relinquished control of another port, Muara in Brunei, which has since been taken over by a Chinese entity in partnership with a state-backed Brunei conglomerate.