Laying it on a bit thick: how 'lines are cashing in on stevedores' just demands'

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01/10/2024

A massive port strike has broken out on the US east and Gulf coasts, and with it has come an almighty avalanche of hyperbolic misinformation.

Let’s take the juiciest first: yesterday’s claim by ILA president Harold Daggett that carriers were now charging shippers $30,000 per container.

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