In dialogue among shippers, carriers and non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOs) for the upcoming Asia-to-North America contract cycle, a new issue is being raised: the possibility of labor disruption, including a strike along the US East and Gulf coasts for the first time in decades.<\/p>\n
International Longshoremen\u2019s Association (ILA) President Harold Daggett on Nov. 4 told his rank and file to be prepared for that possibility if no agreement with carriers is reached by Sept. 30, 2024, when the current collective bargaining agreement expires.<\/p>\n
With memories still fresh of West Coast disruptions during contract negotiations in 2022 and 2023 (and in many prior rounds), and supply chains being monitored closely by senior management following the pandemic upheavals, shippers who have built East and Gulf coast routings into their supply chains are taking no chances. They are raising the need for contingency plans in discussions with carriers and NVOs ahead of 2024 contract renewals, industry sources tell the Journal of Commerce.<\/p>\n
But any diversions away from established routings, rail and trucking vendors, and distribution center networks will be inconvenient and costly. So part of the calculus will inevitably be this: There hasn\u2019t been a coastwise strike along the East and Gulf coasts in the region since 1977, nearly a half century ago, so what are the odds a strike will really occur this time?<\/p>\n
The answer gets into a complex mix of dynamics, including the state of the carrier industry, perceptions of carriers in Congress and election year presidential politics. But any analysis of the factors that could impact whether or not a strike occurs next year will be insufficient given inherent unpredictability of labor negotiations.<\/p>\n
Some insiders, for example, predicted in 2022 that West Coast negotiations would be quickly wrapped up \u2014 only to be proved wrong when the talks and associated port disruptions stretched on for many months thereafter. They were ultimately only concluded in July of this year, and ratified in August, following intervention by the Biden administration, which was motivated by the need to avoid further supply chain disruption.<\/p>\n
Details please refer to JOC news.<\/em><\/p>\n Source:<\/p>\n Tirschwell, P. (2023, December 5). Shippers weigh costly routing changes against possibility of East Coast Strike<\/i>. Journal of Commerce. https:\/\/www.joc.com\/article\/shippers-weigh-costly-routing-changes-against-possibility-east-coast-strike_20231205.html<\/p>\n In dialogue among shippers, carriers and non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOs) for the upcoming Asia-to-North America contract cycle, a new issue is being raised: the possibility of labor disruption, including a strike along the US East and Gulf coasts for the first time in decades. International Longshoremen\u2019s Association (ILA) President Harold Daggett on Nov. 4 told …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[84,83],"class_list":["post-2817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-maritime","tag-us-ports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}