'Tariff today, gone tomorrow' taking transpac box trade to the brink
Is Trump taking us back to tramp shipping?
Despite the addition of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to the talks between employers and dockworkers on the US west coast, terminal operators say the ports are approaching gridlock.
Yesterday was a day of claim and counterclaim, with officials from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union maintaining that the congestion crisis gripping ports from Seattle to Los Angeles was primarily caused by “managerial mistakes” on the part of shipping line members of the employers’ body, the Pacific Maritime Association, most ...
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