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Port of Seattle fined after failing to file lobbying expenses

The Port of Seattle was one of 69 public agencies reported by a libertarian group called Freedom Foundation to have missing or incomplete lobbying reports.

The Port of Seattle failed to file 4 ½ years of reports about its lobbying expenses, a state investigation found.

The Port blamed staff turnover and confusion about the [...]

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Charleston dockworkers stopped working in labor dispute

Port of Charleston

Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1422 walked off the job for several hours Monday at the South Carolina Ports Authority’s Columbus Terminal in Charleston, upset that nonunion workers were unloading a ship there.

The workers stopped unloading three ships at the port, prompting the South Carolina Stevedores Association, SSA [...]

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Port in battered NE Japan welcomes foreign freighter

A Sendai Shiogama port official said the 30,000 tonne "Global Splendour" freighter was carrying 10,000 tonnes of coal from Indonesia. A transport ministry official said ships using the 14 ports were still only about 15 percent of the number before the quake.

A key port on Japan’s northeast coast devastated by the March 11 [...]

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