Despite three deaths globally and numerous injuries and burns, shipping executives reject proposals designed to keep at-risk containers out of U.S. communities SAN FRANCISCO, CA (November 7, 2011) – As thousands of potentially...
Read MoreLloyd’s Register, a 250-year-old organization that provides risk assessment for the shipping industry, issued the following alert on Nov. 3: Explosion of refrigerated container compression units and recommendations for...
Read MoreAny advertising in this broadcast is not related to the ILWU. KOMO News, Nov. 4: Ten more potentially explosive containers have been found at the Port of Seattle as the fate of the growing collection of containers remains...
Read MoreThe delivery of grain to Argentina’s leading ports ground to a halt last week as a trucker’s union threw up roadblocks and pickets to push for a steep increase in transportation fees. Fetra is demanding an increase...
Read MoreSeattle longshore worker Chris Peeler of ILWU Local 19 was interviewed recently by reporter David Hyde for a public radio broadcast headlined “Refrigerated Shipping Containers Pose Safety Risk.” Peeler describes the...
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