International Longshoremen's Association

The Tideshift Project: Session 3 | Episode 277

The Waterfront Museum presents the final session of The Tideshift Project, featuring stories of waterfront workers from the pre-containerization era and people working in today’s final mile shipping industry. Tideshift is …

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The World in a Box: The 65th Anniversary of Containerized Shipping with Marc Levinson | Episode 211

On April 26, 1956 an oil tanker customized to carry standardized metal crates left Port Newark, NJ for Houston, TX, marking the first commercially successful containerized shipment. Over the next …

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Where is Pete Panto? Corruption and Crusaders on NYC’s Waterfront | Episode 202

New York City’s working waterfront has been widely associated with crime and corruption at least since On The Waterfront hit movie screens in 1954, but the story goes back further. Nathan …

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