On AlterNet: shipping

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "shipping"

Sweatshops at Sea: Most of Our Goods Arrive Via Ships Where Seafarers Labor in Dangerous Conditions

Stan Cox, AlterNet. February 7, 2011.

With 90 percent of all international cargo being hauled by sea, we rely heavily on the exploitation of seafarers, mostly from low-income countries.

Massive Parking Lot of Ghost Ships a Sign of the Econopocalypse

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. September 24, 2009.

Staggering sight ....

Rapacious Corporate Players Are the Real Pirates of the High Seas

Leon Fink, AlterNet. April 16, 2009.

Though they may be the most violent actors at sea, the Somali pirates' mercenary motives place them in the mainstream of today's shipping world.

Boatloads of Trouble: How We Are Importing Our Way to Destruction

Stan Cox, AlterNet. September 5, 2008.

As our consumer goods travel thousands of miles by boat, train and truck, they're leaving a trail of soot and cancer in their wake.

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