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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...
...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...
...spear-carrying tribesmen of Papua New Guinea-homeland of the cargo cults and of islanders who once regarded L.B.J. as a demigod-have a new Western hero to worship. No, not the Fonz or Jimmy Carter, but the masked comic-strip marvel who lives in the Skull Cave of Bangalla-namely, the Phantom...