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Longshoremen who formed a union The government on Thursday night suspended strikes at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports until mid-January, but it will take time for affected ports to return to normal operations due to backlogs that built up during the strike. Probably.
The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) and its approximately 45,000 longshoremen went on strike for about three days before reaching a tentative agreement with the United States Maritime Union (USMX), which represents port employers. The deal, which must be ratified by both sides by January 15, would mean that dockworkers' wages would be 62% higher than in the new contract, although the two countries would need to negotiate issues related to automation.
While negotiations proceed, port management and dockworkers will begin the process of dealing with the impact of the strike. East Port and Bay Port It will likely take several weeks for the supply chain to return to normal as it processes backlogged cargo.
“More or less, we look at it as a 1:5 factor ratio, meaning that for every day of shutdown, it takes five days to recover,” said Associate Director of Corporate and Strategic Alliances at the Association for Supply. said Douglas Kent, president. Chain Management (ASCM) told FOX Business in an interview before the strike.
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Eastern and Gulf ports have reopened following the cancellation of the ILA dockers' strike. (Photographer: Mark Felix/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Kent blamed off-road delays. Arrival cargo Create a ripple effect that “continues all the way back through the chain and interconnectedness of the people who produce the products, the people who ship and manage them, the people who store the goods and the availability of warehouses.” .
“When you go into a port, it’s intermodal transportation…you go into a port, but then you have to get on a rail or a truck,” Kent explained. “When that activity is disrupted on the arrival side, and the ability to clear the transport vessel and unload the containers is disrupted, there is a ripple effect of, 'Well, I cleared the cargo over here, and my truck is stuck here.' or “I’m ready.” coming from AsiaHowever, all my containers remain outstanding in the US. ”
“So the five-day recovery cycle and the ripple effects of things not falling into the right place at the right time are real. And the severity of that will only increase over time,” he added. “There are so many players in that ecosystem that are not interconnected, so it’s very difficult to re-plan their impact.”
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The East Coast and Gulf Coast port strike affected 36 ports where ILA longshoremen work. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/Getty Images)
Everstream Analytics provided similar analysis. Impact of strikes on supply chain “Each day of the strike takes about a week to clear the backlog, so a three-day all-out strike will likely take some time,” he wrote. [a] It will take at least three weeks for U.S. ports to return to normal operations. ”
Everstream noted that the number of container ships waiting outside its Eastern and Gulf ports fell overnight from a peak of 59 on Thursday to 54 as of Friday morning. This is because ships have started moving from anchorages to ports. Reopening of container terminal.
Eastern and Gulf Coast ports will be busy processing cargo over the next few weeks after a longshoremen strike. (Photo by Spencer Pratt/Getty Images/Getty Images)
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It also added that some shippers who have diverted to other ports outside the United States, such as the Bahamas, will have to face the challenge of recovering those containers.
