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Flexport CEO Says a ‘Great Recession’ Is Here for Global Shipping

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Container Ships Are Only 70% Full, but the Insides Are Not Optimized

The West Coast Union, it's called the ILWU International Long-Term and Ware Housing and Use. They're operating without a contract right now, so their contract expired the summer. I don't have any intel what's happening there, but I have heard that their main thing that they want is to not have more automation in the ports. The appointment systems haven't improved the technology for picking up trucks, you know, for picking up containers for getting trucks in and out of there has it improved.

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