Hopes hit high tide for port talks: dockworkers in early talks to avoid second lockout.

Charlie Woo, like many local businessmen with their hands in international commerce, has some not-so-fond memories from the summer of 2002.

As chief executive of Megatoys Inc., a Los Angeles toy retailer that imports most of its products through the local seaports. Woo struggled to keep his business afloat six years ago as a contentious contract dispute between West Coast dockworkers and shippers slowed and then temporarily shut down ...

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