Why do I feel being held ransom?  On another note I believe that there is technology available that would help to reorganized the manpower to facilitate the process of container logistics.  If I recall one of the innovations was developed by the S. Koreans using RFID's to monitor containers.  Perhaps we can achieve the goals by implementing technological initiatives, trimming the personnel count and keeping those on board can embrace same and redistributing the $ saved to the aforementioned?  Just saying...