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The Journal of Commerce reported today:
The slowdowns began Wednesday and, according to several sources, were triggered by the firing of two International Longshoremen’s Association maintenance and repair workers at APM Terminals.
In the wake of the firings, ILA workers reportedly were insisting on thorough inspections of intermodal equipment at port terminals. The slowdowns aggravated delays that normally accompany heavy traffic on a holiday weekend.
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As the media swarmed over the scandal surrounding the Secret Service’s alleged carousing with prostitutes in Colombia, another questionable financial transaction slipped quietly through the backdoor of hemispheric diplomacy.
While officials convened at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, the White House put the finishing touches on another free trade agreement, aimed at liberalizing markets in Colombia and the U.S. The deal has faced vocal resistance from labor and human rights groups in both countries, who argue that the agreement would effectively condone violence against activists and economic oppression. But for the governments looking to build economic ties, the fears raised by civil society groups were just background noise. The Obama administration tried to put the lid on the opposition by tacking on labor policies to address anti-labor violence and other abuses.
Historian Greg Grandin spoke on Democracy Now! about the gap between what activists demanded and what they got:
The human rights community, the labor community in the United States has been asking the Obama administration to basically build into any free trade agreement a number of...
APM Terminals’ European Director of Port Investments and Projects Michiel Ybema proposed a systematic approach to analyzing and enhancing container port productivity on the Sea of Marmara at the 4th Annual Port Financial International Black Sea Conference held in Istanbul recently.
The number of Shore-to-Ship and Mobile Harbor Cranes installed per meter of quay and the average number actually used to work a vessel are the key factors determining equipment intensity. Layout, equipment and operations at the four largest Marmara facilities of Marport, Kumport, Yilport and Evyap were compared respectively with roughly corresponding terminal situations at APM Terminals Global Terminal Network facilities at the Vridi Container Terminal at the Port of Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Aqaba Container Terminal, Jordan; Khalifa bin Salman Port, Bahrain and Terminal 4 at the Port of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Sea freight between Asia and the US is set to increase by nearly $600 a 40-ft container.
This is due to a peak season surcharge imposed by shipping lines operating in the sector to be effective from June 10.
The lines, which are part of the Transpacific Stabilisation Agreement, said that the Asia-US container shipping lines see a strong summer ahead in terms of cargo traffic.
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