Hundreds of giant cargo containers that had been stuck on one of bankrupt Hanjin‘s ships for more than a week was expected to be finally unloaded Saturday after the vessel received orders to dock at the Port of Long Beach.
The giant firm’s bankruptcy forced some of the company’s ships to remain outside the harbor and fully loaded as legal wrangling continued.
But the Hanjin Greece was finally to enter the Port of Long Beach and moor at a Total Terminals International berth, where the ship’s cargo will be unloaded, according to Capt. J. Kip Louttit, executive director of the Marine Exchange of Southern California.
The ship is scheduled to leave port Wednesday, he said.
The orders for the Greece came after a judge in New Jersey granted the shipping line protection from creditors. The Wall Street Journal reported that an attorney for Hanjin said it has enough funds to pay workers to unload cargo on some of its ships, including the Greece.
The Greece is among at least three ships that had been left drifting or anchored near the Long Beach port or off the Southern California coast as the result of the shipping line filing for bankruptcy last week.
The Boston has since entered the port only to refuel, but has not been ordered to dock at a terminal, while the Montevideo has remained anchored, according to Louttit.
A judge last week ordered the Montevideo be held in Long Beach after the Miami-based company World Fuel Services sued over $488,750 in unpaid fuel bills, according to a Reuters report.
— From Staff and Wire Reports