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Container Cliff: Port Strike on East and Gulf Coast Ports Averted, for Now
Update: The port strike has been averted for now with a 30 day contract extension. In early December we posted about the end of the eight day West Coast dock strike that shut down 10 of the port’s 14 container terminals in the … Continue reading
Posted in Current, Lore of the Sea, Ships
Tagged containers, East Coast, Gulf Coast, ILA, Port Strike
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Arms & Drug Trafficking – Container Ships and Rust Buckets
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute has recently released a study of arms and drug trafficking by ship. The headline is “Most ships involved in arms and drugs trafficking are based in world’s richest countries.” The larger part of the picture, however, is not … Continue reading
