Virginia labour pool goes online

A date has not yet been fixed, but the ILA is planning a national day of action sometime over the next two weeks as it takes another crack at eliminating the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbour.

Assets of UK-headquartered workforce management software developer Rostima have been sold to ComOps of Australia, but the sale does not cover all of Rostima’s contracts, and Rostima has filed for insolvency in the UK.

Harold Daggett, the newly-elected president of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), has vowed that the ILA will prevent any more automated facilities from opening on the US East and Gulf coasts, the ranges covered by the ILA.

Maersk’s announcement that it will begin a gradual withdrawal from the port of Charleston where its lease expires at the end of 2010 has local politicians and the International Longshoremen’s Association scrambling to try and broker a deal to keep the carrier

Korea’s Total Soft Bank (TSB) has launched Super Stowage Planner (SS-Planner), which it claims is the first ever automatic ship stowage planning system.

Rostima of the UK has launched a container port workforce management solution called Enterprise Plus.