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Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM:US), the world’s largest corn processor, is looking to move its global headquarters from central Illinois after 44 years to gain better access to customers as it expands.
Earlier this year, ADM agreed to buy Australian crop handler GrainCorp Ltd. to gain control of seven of the eight ports that ship grain in bulk from the nation’s east coast.
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Several representatives of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have recently gone on “road trips” to rural communities in Washington and Montana to protest the grain handlers’ actions and try to win favor with farmers.
Along the way, they’ve picketed grain elevators owned by Columbia Grain, United Grain and Louis Dreyfus.
The longshoremen’s picketing resulted in a local union leader, Scott Mason, being cited for criminal trespass at a facility in Harlem, Mont., on Sept. 18.
Mason, the president of ILWU Local 23 of Tacoma, Wash., said longshoremen have the right to establish “primary pickets” at such sites. Mason said he has pleaded not guilty and would ask for a jury trial.
“We don’t plan on giving up this fight,” he said. “We have the right to put economic pressure to even the score until we can get both sides back to the table.”
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The $5.3 billion canal overhaul — already about six months behind schedule — will allow newer, bulkier container ships to pass through the canal’s locks and gates, speeding up greater loads of cargo between Europe and Asia.
The Panama Canal Authority, financially independent from the government, has set a completion date of October 2014. Delays in laying concrete may create the hold-up, he said.
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The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) has pledged to continue the struggle for container weight safety after what it described as a missed opportunity to reduce the risk of harm to transport workers and members of the public.
The organisation was speaking out following a decision by the IMO (International Maritime Organization) sub–committee on dangerous goods, solid cargoes and containers to accept an alternative mode of verification to the mandatory weighing of packed shipping containers.
The proposed amendment to the Safety of Life at Sea Convention (SOLAS) by the ITF received its final consideration by the sub-committee this week. Instead, the sub-committee opted for a compromise position, which allows governments to either choose the gold standard of mandatory weighing or the lesser measure of certifying containers based on an unformulated process of verifying the weight by adding together the different constituent parts of a container load at unspecified times and places along the transport route.
ITF president and dockers’ section chair Paddy Crumlin explained the flaws in the compromise: “This was the ideal opportunity to finally bring...
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