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The toll charges for ships that will use the new Panama Canal lock system that's expected to open in 2014 are still unknown, leaving cost projections a mystery. The volume of traffic through the canal will increase only moderately. At this month’s Northwest Intermodal conference in Portland, Oregon, Rodolfo Sabonge, vice president of market [...]  By Robert McEllrath, International President, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Two million Americans and counting have been pressed through a system that was supposed to improve our national port security, but hasn’t. Those longshoremen, marine clerks, truck drivers and anyone else who needs to enter a U.S. marine terminal has had to get a Transportation [...] Trade experts see the wastepaper exports as a measure of confidence in the U.S. retail economy because much of the material is turned into packaging for toys, electronics and other consumer goods produced at China's factories. America Chung Nam, the sister company and supplier of wastepaper to China’s largest containerboard manufacturer, was the largest American exporter of [...] Israel claims the weapons in the March shipment were bound for Hamas. CMA CGM said it was a victim of false transport documentation from the sender. Leading US Republican congressmen are urging the the US Treasury Department to consider sanctions against the world’s third-largest container shipping company – France’s CMA CGM – for possible [...] |
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