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  • Farm goods rot as port shutdown continues

    10/06/2002 9:11:56 AM PDT · by Tumbleweed_Connection · 39 replies · 361+ views
    ABS-CBNNews ^ | 10/6/02 | KIM BACA
    FRESNO, California - A weeklong shutdown of the West Coast’s major ports has left stacks of market-bound farm produce to rot on the docks and in the holds of ships that can’t reach shore. As contract talks continued between the dockworkers union and shipping lines Saturday, about 1.3 billion apples were awaiting shipment to Asia, nearly 8,000 tons of frozen meat from Australia sat in untouched shipping containers, and hundreds of tons of other fruit and food products remained far from intended markets. About 5 million pounds of yellow, red, pearl and other onions grown in the Northwest are in...