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PORTS AUTOMATION * USA: Labor agreement discussions
* California - US Port labor talks turn on automation cutting workers
(Featured Video : Port of LA Automated Container Terminal, from CH2MHILL 3D Visualization Studio -3 June 2014: 3D computer animated video production explaining the new automated container terminal for Trapac at the Port of Los Angeles)
Los Angeles Port,CAL,USA -Bloomberg News/Transport Topícs, by Patrick T. Fallon -19 Sept 2014: -- West Coast shippers and dockworkers are struggling to reach a labor agreement as terminal operators replace as many as half of laborers at some ports with robots in the largest technological change in half a century... The two sides are discussing how to retrain and preserve jobs for dockworkers as automation reduces the number of positions at one Los Angeles terminal by 40% to 50% after changes are completed in 2016... The International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association are negotiating a new contract for 20,000 West Coast dockworkers, more than two months after a six-year agreement expired. A strike or lockout could cost the U.S. economy $2 billion a day, according to the National Retail Federation and National Association of Manufacturers... Terminal operators at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the largest U.S. port complex, are installing equipment that moves containers from ships to shore cranes and trucks with minimal human labor. The first large-scale automation project is scheduled to be complete at a TraPac Inc. terminal at the Port of Los Angeles in 2016. In neighboring Long Beach, Orient Overseas Container Line Asia Pacific Ltd. is adding robots as part of a $1.3 billion project to upgrade two container terminals by 2019...
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