Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could save time and cut down on theft and breakage by hoisting his goodsladen truck rigs directly aboard ship, containerization has completely transformed the shipping industry. As a result, if the I.L.A.'s strike continues much beyond next week, it will tie up the great bulk of general cargo that moves...
Initially, container cargo was limited to such high-value goods as machine tools and consumer products. Now shippers have devised ways to move everything from coffee beans to bulk chemicals in the cavernous boxes. These days container cargoes often include frozen food, fruit, yachts, trucks and even copies of Playboy magazine, which are thereby protected from pilfering deckhands. The Port of New York, which has the most elaborate container ship facilities anywhere, is ringed by sprawling concrete flatlands spiked with 135-ft.-tall cranes that hoist the 20-to 40-ft.-long containers onto and off ships. As late...
...trend threatens to make longshoremen as redundant as pick-and-shovel coal miners. It once took 100 longshoremen working around-the-clock for a week to load and unload cargoes on a conventional freighter; 40 to 50 men can do the same job on a container ship in less than a day. Although U.S. cargo traffic has soared by 276% since container ships first appeared, the number of longshoremen working the docks nationwide has declined from 150,000 to 90,000. In New York, I.L.A. membership has dropped from...
...salary whether or not there is work for them, and the I.L.A. agreed in return to put a freeze on additions to its union rolls. Locals in each port negotiate the size of the guarantee. The money comes from a tonnage charge levied by port employer associations on all cargo that crosses the docks. In the Port of New York, through which about a third of all U.S. container traffic passes, longshoremen are guaranteed pay for 2,080 hours annually-40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. In ports with less container ship traffic, guarantees are smaller...
...this week John Seely, director of the State Department of Commercial Motor Vehicles, said the 25-employee HSA moving venture had been "an illegal operation" because it lacked the certification and cargo insurance the state requires for such businesses...