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Wildcat strike closes all NY/NJ metro shipping ports

A wildcat strike closed all metro shipping ports Tuesday after workers refused to cross picket lines set up to protest a labor dispute elsewhere, officials said.

Dock workers at Port of New York and New Jersey facilities joined the work stoppage in sympathy with fellow union members from Camden, N.J., the union said.

“There are [...]

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Longshoremen protest shuts down Ports Newark, Elizabeth

Longshoremen in New Jersey this morning. Click on the photo to read the Star-Ledger article.

A protest by the International Longshoremen’s Association over a union dispute in Southern New Jersey has shut down operations at the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal container complex, angering shipping companies and truckers left idle by the action.

The protest [...]

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Philadelphia ILA Shuts Down NY-NJ Terminals

To read the Journal of Commerce article, click on the image.

Picket lines by longshoremen from Philadelphia caused work stoppages at all six container terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey on Tuesday, when terminal workers who are members of the International Longshoremen’s Association refused to cross the Philadelphia ILA picket [...]

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Union work stoppage shuts down Packer Marine Terminal in Philadelphia

The Packer Street Marine Terminal in Philadelphia has been closed, reportedly by a work stoppage by members of the International Longshoremen’s Association. Sympathetic shutdowns have been reported in Port Elizabeth, Newark and Howland Hook, NJ.

Reportedly, the union action is directed at Astro Holdings, the Holt Cargo division that operates the Packer Avenue facility. The [...]

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Louis Dreyfus Ukraine to invest $190 million in Odesa region

Louis Dreyfus has been working in Ukraine since 1998, with elevators in the Vinnytsia and Cherkasy regions.

Louis Dreyfus Ukraine Ltd. (Kyiv) intends to invest $190 million in the construction of a grain terminal in Illichivsk (Odesa region). A company’s representative said this when meeting with Head of Odesa regional state administration Eduard [...]

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