The strike of the ports that already has an effect on America
andEd with Waiting for ages to download and unload trailer, Malcolm Mclean, former truck driver, containers, which can be easily raised inside and outside trucks and ships. They changed the shipping industry. She left the first ship carrying the Nark port containers, which is part of the New York Port Authority and New Jersey (Pany/nj), In 1956.
today Pany/nj It runs the largest port on the American eastern coast: containers, stacked like LEGO, many. But the giant cranes, which appear to be an intersection between mineral dinosaurs and stars war vehicles, may soon stop loading and emptying ships. Dockers says at 36 Vehicles from Texas to Maine that they will leave the job on the first of October after their contract has expired.
This is the first conflict of port employment on the east coast since 1977. In recent years, the uncertainty of workers has been more common on the western coast, which has a different contract. Many ports invested on the eastern coast and in the Gulf of Mexico billions of dollars in their infrastructure, deepening channels and sidewalks for larger ships. according to S&P Global Market Intelligence, a data analysis company, east of the coast and the Gulf, was steadily away from the West.
The strike can disrupt the delivery of consumer goods worth billions of dollars during the peak shipping season. About 60 % of the American container trading will be affected. The value of the barefoot imports at the 36th port reached 588 billion dollars last year. The five of the ten most crowded strikes in North America will be closed.
Talks between the sidewalk and the US Maritime Alliance, which represents the stations and carriers, collapsed in June. The federation fears the automation of the port and wants to increase wages by approximately 80 %, partly due to the maintenance of ports operating during the epidemic, when the container lines get the profits of the records. Transport companies say this happened for one time.
“The strike is too late”, even if the strike is canceled before October 1 S&P. Ports, transport companies, retailers, warehouses and railway companies have been prepared for several months for a possible closure. The shipments were transferred to the West Coast. The ports on both the coasts and the Gulf witness higher sizes than usual because the two trucks try to get the most good as possible before the strike.
Donna Lim says from IMCWhich transport goods to and from the ports. She says that the two trucks fought for space for several months even before we started talking about a loud blow. One of the contact materials in its containers.
Bethan Rooney, Pany/njThe director of the director notes that “the port’s ecosystem is usually very flexible in the disturbances.” When a container vessel hit a bridge in Baltimore in March, causing its collapse, the other eastern coast ports rose to keep the supplies. However, the strike that affects many ports will have a much greater impact. The West Coast may benefit from additional trade, but this also comes at a cost in the crowding of ships and trucks. Some drivers, who do not get their salaries unless they move, are waiting for about five hours to get a transformation instead of the usual hour.
The policy did not help. President Joe Biden was hesitant to participate, unlike last year when he entered during the West Coast talks. The TAFT-Hartley law can be required to force Dockers to return to work, but he does not want to restore the union or its brothers in other industries before the elections. It may be difficult to ignore the problem soon. ■
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