ILA Dockworkers OK Contract »
4/10/2013 6:36:20 PM
International Longshoremen’s Association members have ratified a six-year contract for East and Gulf coast dockworkers in coastwide voting. If employers likewise ratify the agreement next Tuesday as ... Read More...
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India Container Volume Flat in Fiscal 2012-13 »
4/10/2013 6:35:32 PM
Container throughput at India’s major ports stayed relatively flat year-over-year in fiscal year 2012-13, which ended March 31, 2013, according to the latest provisional figures released by the India... Read More...
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Stevedores Reportedly Back to Work in Chile »
4/10/2013 6:34:42 PM
Nearly all stevedores from ports in Chile are back at work, following a port strike that halted labor activities and delayed shipments of copper, fruit and wood pulp, ABC News reports . Other media o... Read More...
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Dockworker Strike Disrupts Hong Kong Truck Traffic »
4/3/2013 4:01:54 PM
Strikes by dockworkers at Hong Kong’s container facilities continued today, further disrupting truck operations to and from facilities in the Kwai Tsing area of the port. The numbers of strike worker... Read More...
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Weekly Intra-North Europe Volume Tops 175,000 TEUs »
4/3/2013 3:40:13 PM
Forty intra-Europe carriers carry more than 175,000 20-foot-equivalent units of containers a week on more than 160 services, according to new report by Netherlands-based Dynamar B.V. Intra-Europe car... Read More...
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Vote Yes, Daggett Urges ILA Members »
4/3/2013 3:17:31 PM
International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett has written to ILA members, urging them to ratify a six-year contract agreement covering dockworkers at East and Gulf Coast ports. Th... Read More...
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Survey: Shipping Confidence at Two-Year High »
3/27/2013 3:16:55 PM
Overall confidence levels in all sectors of the shipping industry recovered to their highest level in two years in the three months ended February, according to the latest Shipping Confidence Survey ... Read More...
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St. Lawrence Seaway’s Navigation Season Begins »
3/27/2013 3:10:21 PM
With the transit of Canada Steamship Lines’ newly built Baie St. Paul through the St. Lambert Lock, the St. Lawrence Seaway’s 55th navigation season has opened , according to the St. Lawrence Seaway ... Read More...
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Neither Side Budges: PNW Terminal Talks Break Down »
3/27/2013 3:08:24 PM
Contract negotiations between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and three grain terminal operators in the Pacific Northwest broke down at the weekend with each side refusing to consider... Read More...
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Ex-Crowley Official Indicted in Puerto Rico Antitrust Case »
3/27/2013 3:06:57 PM
Thomas Farmer, a former executive at Crowley Liner Services, was indicted by a federal grand jury in San Juan on a charge of conspiring with competitors to fix shipping rates in the U.S. mainland-Pue... Read More...
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