Container ship anchorages are growing outside of US East and Gulf coast ports on the second day of a dockworker strike, with carriers offering limited options to avoid delays and currently planning to divert only a handful of vessels to alternative ports.<\/p>\n
As of Wednesday, at least 64 container ships were scheduled call one of the 15 US ports affected by striking members of the International Longshoremen\u2019s Association, according to data from Sea-web, a sister product of the Journal of Commerce within S&P Global.<\/p>\n
As the largest strike-affected port and first call on most weekly services, half of the ships are destined for the Port of New York and New Jersey, with estimated arrivals until Nov. 1, Sea-Web data show. In the first week of October, some 13 ships are scheduled to arrive at the New York-New Jersey port.<\/p>\n
In addition to those ships, Sea-web data shows another 13 ships are currently at the ports, sitting at anchorage, with nine outside the Port of Savannah alone. The Georgia Ports Authority said in a statement Wednesday that when Savannah reopens, it will have the yard space to deal with the backlog.<\/p>\n
The vessels are operated by carrier members of the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), the employer organization that negotiates collectively with the ILA. It does not include smaller carriers that are not affiliated with the USMX, nor vessels that call non-ILA marine terminals.<\/p>\n
Sea-web data looks at port destinations listed through automatic identification systems with an expected arrival by Nov. 1.<\/p>\n
Thus far, carriers have made minimal changes to vessel schedules due to the strike. Hapag-Lloyd advised shippers Tuesday that two vessels in its Caribbean Express Service (CES) that would have called the Port of Virginia this month will now call Canada\u2019s Port of Saint John. The carrier\u2019s US Gulf\u2013South America (GS1) service that calls Houston and New Orleans will instead discharge at the Mexican ports of Altamira or Veracruz over the next two weeks.<\/p>\n
Maersk advised shippers Tuesday that it has \u201cmapped out specific possible vessel-level contingencies that will be actioned depending on the duration of the labor dispute.\u201d Maersk has not outlined specific diversions yet, but one of the vessels in its Asia\u2013US East Coast TP16 service, the 8,540-TEU Seroja Lima, currently adrift outside the New York-New Jersey oirt, will now head to the Bahamas Port of Freeport, with an expected arrival of Oct. 8, according to the vessel\u2019s latest schedule update from Maersk.<\/p>\n
CMA CGM declared force majeure at the outset of the strike, which in many bills of lading allows carriers to discharge cargo wherever is most convenient.<\/p>\n
If the strike continues, carriers will likely have to make new routing decisions by the end of the week, according to Sea-Intelligence Maritime Analysis. The backlog will equate to roughly 400,000 TEU, or 1.4% of global capacity, the loss of which would \u201cpush up freight rates, not just on the trades to the US, but likely across all major deep-sea trades,\u201d Sea-Intelligence CEO Alan Murphy said in a report released Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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Angell, M. (2024b, October 2). Ships backing up outside of strike-shut US east, Gulf Ports<\/i>. Journal of Commerce. https:\/\/www.joc.com\/article\/ships-backing-up-outside-of-strike-shut-us-east-gulf-ports-5741090<\/p>\n Container ship anchorages are growing outside of US East and Gulf coast ports on the second day of a dockworker strike, with carriers offering limited options to avoid delays and currently planning to divert only a handful of vessels to alternative ports. As of Wednesday, at least 64 container ships were scheduled call one of …<\/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-3090","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\/3090","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=3090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3091,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions\/3091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}