Day: January 20, 2013

U.S. ports’ drive to control costs leads to labor strife

Jan 20, 2013

From Reuters: When Charles Spencer became a crane operator at the Jacksonville Port Authority in Florida in 1971, it took at least a day for 200 dockworkers to unload 160-pound sacks of coffee from a cargo ship. Now the same job...

Port of Los Angeles cargo numbers drop in 2012

Jan 20, 2013

Total imports and exports handled by longshore workers at the Port of Los Angeles fell slightly in 2012 compared with the previous year, according to data provided by the port. The drop punctuated a year in which the country was...