Port Automation Series The big question: what is the future for the global port labour force?

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There was brief period of hope for US importers in early October, after a three-day stoppage in US east and Gulf coast ports came to an end thanks to a “tentative agreement” on renumeration.

Any prospect that that optimism would lead to a comprehensive new master contract being signed by US east and Gulf coast port employer body USMX and the ILA dockworker union were dashed, after it became clear that the fundamental hurdle to any agreement remained the issues of ...