Tag: strike

U.S. dock workers and port operators have reached a tentative deal that ends a crippling three-day strike, which had shut down 36 major ports along the East and Gulf Coasts.

The shipping industry is at edge over the situation surrounding the strike by U.S. East and Gulf Coast port workers could disrupt container traffic from Maine to Texas.

A major bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, the Francis Scott Key Bridge, partially collapsed on Tuesday 26 March after being hit by a cargo ship, leaving people in the Patapsco River below.

After more than a year of negotiations, the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union reached a tentative agreement on Wednesday.

Argentina is the world's top exporter of soybean oil and meal, the third largest in corn, and a key supplier of wheat.

The Finnish Transport Workers' Union (AKT) ended their two-week stevedores' strike. The union made the announcement shortly before 8pm on March 2nd.

Dock workers at Germany’s North Sea ports went on strike Friday in the latest of several walkouts that have added pressures on shipping as their union demands a hefty pay rise to counter high inflation.

The Maritime Union of Australia reported that wharfies are striking for 48 hours at DP World’s Brisbane, Sydney and Fremantle container terminals, and for 96 hours in Melbourne, to fight against automation, outsourcing, cuts to income protection insurance.

The Strike Club informed that it will continue to provide marine delay insurance for operators in the Straits of Hormuz between the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf. The Club reached this decision, despite rising political tensions in the area and recent attacks on six tankers.

According to local sources, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada (ILWU Canada) reached an agreement with B.C. Maritime Employers Association (BCMEA), preventing a shutdown at the majority of the major port facilities, located at the Canadian west coast.