Cargoes shipped in U.S.-flag vessels are down 9.5 percent for the 2001 navigation season compared with the same period last year, led in November by a 21.4 percent drop in iron ore shipments.
The AFL-CIO United Steelworkers of America Dec. 12 called for stiffer penalties on unfairly traded steel imports than those recommended six days earlier by the International Trade Commission.
