Personal touch triumphs over technology, seasoned air freight executive contends
Technology, computerized tracking, and tracing, the continuing demise of high-season, slack season shipping largely driven by the steady surge of e-commerce have dramatically altered the worlds of air cargo and freight forwarding and depersonalized global logistics, contends Angel Rodriguez, a 30-year-veteran of the supply chain’s most time-sensitive transportation sector.
IMO proposes ‘Pricing Mechanism’ for ships to reduce Ghg emissions
The United Nations’ International Maritime Organization (IMO) is considering a ‘pricing mechanism’ to accelerate international shipping’s transition away from greenhouse gases (ghg) and toward zero emissions.
Montreal dockers begin “indefinite” overtime ban
Charging that maritime employers are “dragging their heels” in deadlocked negotiations, Port of Montreal longshoremen today began an “indefinite” ban on overtime work in another industrial action short of a general strike.
Seafarers’ Ministry of The Golden Gate champions mariners’ rights
Some container ships and bulk carriers arriving at U.S. ports generate complaints from their crew members that they suffer from substandard conditions that include a shortage of food, according to Robert Wilkins, Executive Director, International Maritime Center and Chief Program Officer, Seafarers' Ministry of the Golden Gate.
Is the ILA wrong about automation?
The recently resolved International Longshoremen’s Association’s (ILA) strike, which shut down ports on the East and Gulf Coasts, wasn’t just about wages and benefits but also focused on opposing automation at container terminals where the union says jobs are threatened. But is the ILA right about the threat of automation?
Climate change: Port of Hueneme weathers the storms
Within the last year, the Port of Hueneme, located in Ventura County, California, was hit by 8 inches of rain in two hours plus a drought hurting blueberry shipments from Peru and hurricanes hurting Mexican banana imports, reports Kristin Decas, Executive Director, Port of Hueneme.
Acting U.S. Labor Secretary Su says employers “have refused” good faith offer to ILA
In the first day of the longshore strike that has shut down ports on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts, Acting U.S. Labor Secretary Julie Su criticized employers represented by the U.S. Maritime Alliance
USMX says IT & ILA “have traded counter offers related to wages”
On September 30th, the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX), representing employers at U.S. East and Gulf ports, said it and the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) “have traded counter offers related to wages.”
Partial strike underway shuts down two Montreal container terminals
While a devastating strike looms on the US East and Gulf coasts, Canada is dealing with its own labour conflict at the Port of Montreal, the largest Canadian container gateway on the Eastern Seaboard.
State’s Undersecretary Fernandez talks about China’s “economic coercion”
Trade does indeed promote peace, as promulgated by many statesmen and thinkers, including former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson who in 1918 called for “the removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions” as part of his blueprint for world peace.

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