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From the March 28 News Tribune:
A longshore worker was recovering from minor injuries Thursday he received while he was lashing down containers on a ship at the Port of Tacoma’s Husky Terminal Wednesday night.
Port spokeswoman Tara Mattina said the worker apparently missed a step while climbing and fell to the ship’s deck. The ship was “K” Line’s Chiswick Bridge.
The injured worker was placed on a back board by firefighters and lifted off the ship using a terminal container crane. Lifting the worker off the ship with the crane was preferably to carrying him down the gangway by hand because it was smoother and quicker, said the spokeswoman.
More at the News Tribune

Hong Kong International Terminals’ (HIT) managing director Gerry Yim denied on Wednesday that he was a board member of one of the contract firms that employed striking dock workers.
He made the comments at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon a short time after HIT released a statement denying that Yim or anyone at Hutchison Whampao, HIT’s parent company, or any senior executive at Hutchison Port Holdings Trust was a board member of any contractor.
HIT, which operates five of the nine terminals in Kwai Chung, is at the centre of a week-long labour dispute between dock workers who are demanding a pay raise and the labour contractors who hire the dockers on behalf of the port operator.
Yim’s comments angered the dock workers and unionists supporting them.
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