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A coalition of about 100 business groups, including shipping and trucking associations, sent a letter to President Obama Tuesday urging the White House to “take immediate action” to help end the strike entering its second week at the Southern California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

A Mexican port 50 miles south of the California border is picking up shipping traffic as a strike at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach continues, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.

Talks to end a strike that began last week at the Port of Los Angeles and since spread to the neighboring Port of Long Beach intensified over the weekend but have not resolved the dispute, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.

The Port of Los Angeles said its September loaded container volume rose 1.5% from a year ago.

The Port of Los Angeles said Feb. 15 its import and export container volumes each rose more than 5% in January from a year ago.

The Port of Los Angeles said its exports surged 14.5% last year, a second straight record.

Container volume at the Port of Los Angeles rose 12.3% from a year ago, with exports reaching a record, the port said Tuesday.

The Port of Los Angeles said it will not appeal a decision by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that rejected the port’s plan to ban independent truckers from drayage operations there.

A federal appeals court rejected a plan by the Port of Los Angeles to ban independent operators from drayage operations, giving American Trucking Associations a victory in a major point of its lawsuit challenging several points in the port’s clean trucks program.