Tag: strike

Xeneta says that port strikes on the US East Coast and Gulf Coast were avoided, with container freight rate growth expected to slow or fall. 

According to reports, the Montreal Longshoremen's Union rejected a final offer made for a new labour contract.

Key ports on Canada’s West Coast were shut down by a labor strike on 4 November, 2024, as The International Longshore and Warehouse Union Ship & Dock Foreman Local 514 began striking.

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.