Two marine terminals handling Mediterranean Shipping Co.\u2019s Montreal container services face a work stoppage starting this week after longshore workers there voted to authorize an indefinite strike targeting nearly half of the port\u2019s container capacity.<\/p>\n
Termont International said Monday that Local 375 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) notified it that an \u201cunlimited strike\u201d will occur at Montreal\u2019s Maisonneuve and Viau terminals starting Thursday at 11 AM local time.<\/p>\n
The terminal operator urged shippers with cargo at both terminals to schedule pickups by Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n
The strike at the two terminals will idle more than 1 million TEUs of Montreal\u2019s total 2.3 million TEUs in terminal capacity. The port\u2019s two other international container terminals, Racine and Cast, won\u2019t be affected by the work stoppage.<\/p>\n
Termont, a joint venture between MSC\u2019s Terminal Investment Limited, SSA Marine and Canadian stevedore Logistec, primarily handles MSC\u2019s trans-Atlantic and north-south services into Montreal. The services include the Montreal Express 1 from Italy, the Med Canadian service and the Canada Gulf Bridge service that spans Mexico and US Gulf ports.<\/p>\n
MSC\u2019s current schedule shows at least four of its ships \u2014 Anya, Celine, Nahara and England \u2014 scheduled to arrive at the Termont terminals by the end of the week. Another two ships in MSC services \u2014 Levina III and OOCL St. Lawrence \u2014 are scheduled to arrive at Montreal\u2019s other terminals.<\/p>\n
Local 375\u2019s latest labor action represents a further escalation of pressure tactics against the Maritime Employers Association (MEA), which has yet to agree on a new contract covering the port\u2019s 1,200 longshore workers. Local 375 also started an ongoing boycott of overtime work at the port and held a three-day work stoppage at the Viau and Maisonneuve terminals at the start of October. This past Sunday, Local 375 conducted a one-day, port-wide strike at Montreal.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/p>\n
Angell, M. (2024d, October 29). Montreal dockworkers target MSC\u2019s terminals for strike this week<\/i>. Journal of Commerce. https:\/\/www.joc.com\/article\/montreal-dockworkers-target-mscs-terminals-for-strike-this-week-5781453<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two marine terminals handling Mediterranean Shipping Co.\u2019s Montreal container services face a work stoppage starting this week after longshore workers there voted to authorize an indefinite strike targeting nearly half of the port\u2019s container capacity. Termont International said Monday that Local 375 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) notified it that an \u201cunlimited …<\/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":[86,84],"class_list":["post-3118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canadian-ports","tag-maritime"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118","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=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3119,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions\/3119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}