By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) –
The US east coast is set for another bruising encounter between a dockworker union, shipping line and terminal operators.
The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) has launched legal action against Hapag-Lloyd and the US Maritime Alliance.
At the centre of the claim is the new Hugh K Leatherman container terminal at the port of Charleston, the first new box capacity in the US for over a decade when it opened this month.
The first vessel call was by Hapag-Lloyd’s 3,200 teu
Yorktown Express, which arrived on 9 April and is the focus of an ILA claim for $200m in damages.
ILA sues for $200M over nonunion labor in South Carolina
Hapag-Lloyd and United States Maritime Alliance defendants in lawsuit filed after first ship worked at Port of Charleston’s Leatherman Terminal
0 92 5 minutes read The Yorktown Express was the first ship worked at the Leatherman Terminal. Now Hapag-Lloyd has been named in a lawsuit. (Photo: English Purcell/SCPA)
On April 9, a Hapag-Lloyd container ship became the first cargo vessel to berth at the new Hugh K. Leatherman Terminal in North Charleston, South Carolina. It was cause for celebration for the South Carolina Ports Authority.
Then it got Hapag-Lloyd named in a lawsuit.
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