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The articles excerpted on this site report on the state of the industry as seen by mainstream media, and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the officers of the ILWU Coast Longshore Division.

Panama promise for the US East Coast

Apart from predicting better times this year and further ahead, it is another date, 2014, that the East Coast US ports have their eye on. That is when the expanded Panama Canal is due to open, and major investments are planned or under way as ports hope to cash in on the potential it will [...]

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Will SC port authority’s plan switch to more non-union labor?

The South Carolina State Ports Authority wants to make all public port operations “common user,” a phrase people outside the maritime community learned when Maersk Line threatened to pull its business from the Port of Charleston.

The SPA last year offered to move Maersk’s operations to what’s known as the common user gate, where SPA [...]

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