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Month: July 2012

Syria ship container trade slides as violence grows

Ship container volumes at Syria’s biggest terminal Latakia have dropped over 20 percent in the past six months year-on-year as growing turmoil hampers trade even for basic goods including food, trade sources say. Syrian...

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Maersk Renews Seattle Calls

The Port of Seattle got good news for a change on Tuesday when Maersk Line renewed its agreement to call SSA’s Terminal 18 at the port. Maersk Line will continue to call the port with its TP 9 service from Asia, which is a...

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‘Patrick layoff plan will be defeated’

The Maritime Union of Australia sees Patrick’s plan as “1998 all over again at Patrick’s Port Botany”. “Patrick’s management has resorted to its mean and tricky ways of 1998 with today’s shock announcement that it will sack more...

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Longshoremen: Port dispute about more than two jobs

Excerpts from the Portland Business Journal: “There are much bigger issues at play, issues that strike at the heart of our collective bargaining agreement,” Leal Sundet, the union’s coast committeeman, said in a news...

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