Word: containerization
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A container of burning chili producing heavy smoke caused a fire alarm and the partial evacuation of the low-rise section of Mather House at about 4 a.m. yesterday, Harry W. Orf, Mather House senior tutor, said yesterday.
What dock strike? Now in its second month and with a good possibility of ending this week, the walkout by longshoremen at container ports from Maine to Texas has so far sent no more than a ripple through the U.S. economy. It has been a strike of a thousand pinpricks...
...began and probably are sufficient to meet demand through Christmas. Some importers shifted away from container ships to break-bulk carriers (conventional freighters), which are still being handled by longshoremen. One day last week, New York harbor was filled with 54 freighters-half break-bulk and being unloaded, half containerized and untouched by strikers' hands. Goods are also being shipped in containers through West Coast ports, which are not struck. The increased traffic has taxed facilities there, but sellers have still another trade route: air freight. Pan American's airfreight business via Kennedy Airport was up a third...
At the weekend, negotiations resumed between shippers and the International Longshoremen's Association amid signs of an early settlement. Employers made a new wage offer; but the major stumbling block remained container shipping's threat to job security. Teddy Gleason, the I.L.A.'s crusty boss, who turned...
So far, the strike has had little effect on the nation's economy; expecting the inevitable, importers and exporters rushed container ship deliveries through the ports before the deadline. Although past dock strikes have frequently been ended by Taft-Hartley injunction, the Carter Administration has pledged to keep hands...