Recession-proof port adage proved wrong in today's economy 

Posted: 1:00 am Mon, June 1, 2009
By admin

Container ships are lined up off Annapolis, waiting for work. The Port of Baltimore had to buy 15 acres of land to park 57,000 unsold cars. Business is slow these days for Baltimore longshoremen. "We used to be economy-proof," said Steve Lukiewski, a labor coordinator for the International Longshoreman's Association Local 953 in Locust Point. ...