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Port operations resume after weekend union lockout
The Pacific ports in Mexico are probably starting to look better and better to various shippers. To bad the RR bridge at Presidio, TX is still out. I wonder if this incident at the US ports will speed up the rebuilding process.
Mr. Haws,
He who considers the attractiveness of Mexican ports to shippers might consider that ports further north are many nautical miles closer to big Asian ports;.
The container ships “steam” at 20 knots whether they’re bound near or far, and what they’re carrying is a lot of capital in limbo until it makes port and store shelves.
But, what I was going to ask before that was about the ILWU.
In my teens, that stood for the “International Longshoreman Workers Union.
My question: 'International Longshore and Warehouse Union??”
As printed in more than one article here.
Oh, and I read that the container ships carry only 20 and 40 feet long boxes. the longer boxes are not wayfaring international sea-cvelers. They stay on the continent, not ships…
Another overlooked typo screw-up/.
I intended that the last line was:
“wayfaring sea travelers.”
Francis, the same union extends to the Canadian Ports as well. Therefore ship thru a Mexico port, and avoid the congestion as well as a shorter land route to the mid west.
It indeed is the International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union, not sure when the name was changed but that was the name when I worked in logistics, and this is the same tactic the ILWU uses each and every time their contract expires. Do they really need to make more than $135K per year to operate a crane? As well as take off every legitimate Government holiday(they still get both Lincolns and Washingtons Birthday off, not just Presidents Day. Unless they work breakbulk, which there is hardly that much of anymore, all they’re doing is skinning their own necks when the Panama Canal widening opens next year, though there are only 3 ports east of the Canal that can handle the Post-Panamax container ships.