New Closing America's Ports

H5N1 dispute betwixt dock unions in addition to port regime inwards the US has led to the nigh consummate shut-down of a quarter of the United States' international trade. Seaports on the due west coast of the U.S., which unremarkably procedure around 25% of the country's international trade, are beingness closed for the adjacent 4 days.

Marine Traffic shows a large release of cargo vessels off the coast of Los Angeles, presumably waiting for the port to opened upwardly again. I'm non certain how many container ships are usually waiting exterior the Los Angeles in addition to Long Beach ports merely the Financial Times reports that at times concluding calendar week in that place were xx container ships waiting exterior the ports, "compared amongst the normal i or two".

The Pacific Maritime Association concluding calendar week temporarily suspended the unloading of ships, contestation that they needed to clear a backlog of containers inwards the flood yards. The International Longshore in addition to Warehouse Union responded yesteryear hiring a airplane in addition to releasing aerial photos of what seem to hold upwardly many empty yards.

The PMA are refusing to opened upwardly the ports from Th through to Mon because they don't desire to pay overtime to the dock workers. The port owners claim this is inwards answer to the fact that the dock workers convey significantly slowed their charge per unit of measurement of move over the concluding few months.

Marine Traffic shows a large release of container ships are too patently waiting off the coast nigh the ports of Oakland, in addition to Seattle & Tacoma.