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Apr 4, 2012 4:11PM GMTTwo centuries ago, the big question for shipping wasn’t the size of the new generation of ships. It was whether a steam-powered vessel could cross the ocean without burning and sinking. Seafarers, shippers and financiers of the early 19th century were leery of steamships, and no wonder....
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Mar 30, 2012 5:56PM GMTShippers have reason to breathe easier, if not yet celebrate, with the kickoff of contract negotiations between the International Longshoremen’s Association and its East and Gulf coast employers. After scaring the daylights out of cargo interests at the recent Trans-Pacific Maritime...
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Mar 8, 2012 5:57PM GMTWhen shippers hear the word “strike,” they have the same reaction as when someone yells “fire.” That goes double when they hear it from someone like the president of the International Longshoremen’s Association. ILA President Harold Daggett rattled cargo interests at...
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Dec 5, 2011 8:44PM GMTThe Containerization and Intermodal Institute chose well in selecting recipients of awards at CII’s annual New York-New Jersey luncheon. R. Kenneth Johns, CEO of R.K. Johns Associates and longtime Sea-Land executive, received CII’s Connie Award. Washington attorney Stanley O. Sher was...
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Nov 18, 2011 7:37PM GMTSea Star Line’s guilty plea to price-fixing and the indictment of its former president add to questions swirling around the future of the Puerto Rico trade and the U.S.-flag carriers that serve it. For years the trade’s four carriers have been locked in a game of “Survivor,...
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Oct 31, 2011 1:07PM GMTWal-Mart is renowned for its supply chain forecasting but we never realized it extended to baseball. This year’s Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals annual conference Oct. 2-5 in Philadelphia coincided with the National League divisional playoffs matching the heavily favored...
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Aug 22, 2011 7:46PM GMTJohn Bowers enjoyed a good, rousing speech and could deliver one himself when the occasion demanded. But that wasn’t his preferred style. Bowers, who died Sunday at 88, was a master of the quieter art of negotiation. As president of the International Longshoremen’s Association from 1987...
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Aug 9, 2011 2:37PM GMTWeeks before Washington politicians took government dysfunction to a new level and the Eurozone crisis threatened to engulf Italy, a respected forecasting firm signaled an economic slowdown ahead. The Economic Cycle Research Center’s Long Leading Index, which signals economic changes several...
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Aug 3, 2011 9:15PM GMTHarold Daggett fired up his troops with a pugnacious inaugural speech after his election last week as president of the International Longshoremen’s Association. Now the industry is wondering what’s ahead. While rejecting the term “militant,” Daggett promised a tough line on...
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Jul 28, 2011 3:55PM GMTWhen Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Richard Lidinsky looks across the U.S.-Canada border, he sees a “twilight zone.” Lidinsky is referring to what he describes as a blind spot in FMC oversight of service contracts. He says the FMC has origin-to-destination visibility of intermodal...
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Jul 25, 2011 8:34PM GMTThe International Longshoremen’s Association is still smarting over the 200 jobs it lost in Philadelphia last year when Fresh Del Monte shifted its fruit imports to a terminal that employs non-ILA labor. At the union’s quadrennial convention this week in Hollywood, Fla., the meeting...
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Jan 20, 2011 9:45PM GMTAnyone who reads indictments of organized-crime figures must wonder: Where do these guys get their nicknames? At the risk of spilling trade secrets, here’s the answer: Many of the colorful sobriquets attached to defendants’ names in indictments are simply the result of prosecutors having a little...
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