He blamed a "few young soldiers getting excited" for slight pushing on the docks.
Second-placed Investec Royal finished almost four hours later, having been becalmed in sight of the docks.
The University of East London has built an award-winning student campus just north of the docks.
Another woman working along the docks here didn't see her young son for 10 years.
Powers stays on the lobster boat and Thomas follows behind, back to the docks.
John Foster, managing director of Middlesbrough council since April, is now looking at the docks afresh.
The docks lost 33 days in a single strike last year and streets overflowed with rubbish.
Towards the docks, Barcelona's neat grid of boulevards fractures into a crazy-paved compaction of ancient alleys.
Tourists who venture near the docks may run into Saunders, Bimini's most well-known resident.
The Canal and River Trust said silt would be "hoovered" up from the bottom of the docks.
It also has plans to develop property in the docks area of Belfast to be called Titanic Quarter.
Slowdowns reduce the productivity of the docks and so hurt the shippers, but without cutting what dockers earn.
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"The bad press helps us, no question, " Pollick says in his somewhat disheveled office near the docks in Boston.
Importing her handbags and bracelets can take a whole day at the docks.
In Yscloskey, Barisich said three bayou fishermen took settlements from BP, sold their leases and walked away from the docks.
And the docks' customers will not easily find alternative routes: dockers in Vancouver have promised to support their American brothers.
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Bassani's customers are fiercely loyal, striding proudly around the docks after a race in gray Wally polo shirts with matching shorts.
But Pierce takes the longer view, remembering when he left his early work on the docks for work on the waters.
In 1940, World War II's Battle of Britain began when at least 70 German bombers attacked the docks in south Wales.
The five 38-story towers are to be built in Porto Maravilha, an area near the docks that the city has been revitalizing.
One consignment of surface mail mouldered on the docks for a year.
Better, he says, to put the railway yard right on the docks.
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Spectators are welcome to watch from the bleachers set along the docks and enjoy the street shows and concerts held throughout the festival.
The most prominent beneficiary, though, is Williamsburg, with its nicely industrial history centred on the now-closed Schaeffer brewery, sugar refineries and the docks.
It was a boom town and he was able to absorb the different cultures from the docks and the theatres that were there then.
If they detect signs of a slowdown this time, says Mr Miniace, the shippers will simply shut the union workers out of the docks.
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With the decline of the docks and manufacturing over the past 30 years, the local planners have learnt to take economic change in their stride.
Engineer Phillip Vann, who lives in Port Pendennis, close to the docks, said he did not think "risks should be taken with the public in general".
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