Excerpts from the Columbian: Union dockworkers, locked out for more than three weeks in a contract dispute with United Grain Corp. at the Port of Vancouver, say the company and two other operators of Northwest grain-export...
Read More[NOTE: The following is a translation of a resolution passed by the Railroad Workers United in support of ILWU Local 4 in its lockout by Mitsui-United Grain. The Spanish is below; see the English version at this link.] El...
Read MoreA container ship has sunk off the east coast of China, killing at least 11 crew members and leaving two missing. One man has been rescued by helicopter. Rescue officials in the city of Yantai in Shangdong province say the ship,...
Read MoreMaersk Line, the world’s biggest container shipping company, will stop plying through the Panama Canal to move goods from Asia to the U.S. east coast as bigger ships help the company move it profitably through Suez Canal. Maersk...
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