As boss of his own stevedore company and chairman of the Japan Harbour Transportation Association, the formidable Mr Takashima has threatened to ban all American ships from Japan.In theory he could do it.
The contract between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association, which represents the shipping lines, the merchants whose goods they carry, and the stevedore firms that employ the cargo handlers, will expire on June 30th.
As a port operator, stevedore, warehouser and freight forwarder, Bolloré handles 80% of west Africa's exports (excluding oil) and 25% of east Africa's in short, nearly all of Africa's cotton and cocoa, as well as much of its coffee, rubber, and timber.With offices in 42 African countries and 20,000 of his 31,000 employees based in Africa, Mr Bolloré is bullish on the continent's prospects.
The film featured strong performances by John Cassavetes as a white soldier who has gone AWOL, Sidney Poitier as the black stevedore who befriends him, and Jack Warden as their sadistic boss.
Rocket is here," a resting stevedore reassures me.
Deirdre Barlow (previously Rachid, Barlow, Langton and Hunt) bawls like a stevedore.
Melchior Arce, a former stevedore who was nearly as wide across the shoulders as me, though his head was disproportionately small and his left hand had been mangled in an accident, so that it looked like a crushed tarantula dangling from his shirtsleeve, gave a whistle of surprise.
They had to be there to make sure that no stevedore was working who not paying his share of his salary to the dock leadership.
He soon finds work as a stevedore, and holds spirited debates with other workers about the nature of labor and love, while continuing his search for the boy's mother.
In addition to shipping its own scrap from the port, Metal Management charges stevedore fees for handling other cargoes; currently, it was offloading road salt that was being brought in for the winter.
Heyward is more interested in showing off his vocabulary than in inhabiting his characters, and the only vibrancy in the story is generated by the portrait of Bess's addiction to drugs and to her bullying stevedore lover, Crown, who she knows is no good.
