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Originally Posted by flatbutt
3 to 4 hours per container? 3 / day max? It would take a month to a ship.
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Way off, I worked at the shipyards loading/unloading container ships in college, and we were much faster than that. Not all the unions are about slowing everything down, as they were bonuses for getting some out early. The interesting thing is that you have the young guys, doing the grunt work, stacking and lashing the containers, then their fathers were driving the trucks and forklifts, while their grandfather's ran the cranes. My father was the agent for the southeast for the NMU, course he was retired by then (although he did go back to sea at age 60 as a merchant) and I was being encouraged by those on the docks to drop out of college and stay there, a few told me that I wouldn't be loading/unloading for long and would be in 9ne of the offices overseeing until moving into a union position. It was like some had my future planned out. Mind you, while the cranes or anything we did, was not rocket science, we did work 12 hours (and sometimes 15) shifts if a ship really needed to get underway. Even then, at the bottom of the bottom, the money was good, and after 8 hours, it went automatically to time and a half.
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I’m sure the pandemic has nothing to do with it
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That is so last year, it has nothing to do with healthy people
NOT SHOWING up for work at the ports today.