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Last year, a different Chancery Court judge ruled against GT USA Wilmington in a dispute over a planned buyout of the port’s former stevedoring firm.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2022

Magellan, however, refused to pay the terminal usage fee, arguing it was neither a stevedore nor engaged in stevedoring.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2022

After taking over the port, GT imposed a new tariff structure, which includes a new volume-based “terminal usage fee” on stevedoring, which is the physical handling of containers and cargo from vessels.

From Washington Times • May 12, 2020

He was a lawyer with the Federal Maritime Commission and for several stevedoring associations before 1973 when he joined the newly reconstituted National Association of Stevedores, which later became the National Association of Waterfront Employers.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2018

We thought there might be some stevedoring to do.

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