At least 54 container ships queued outside the ports as the strike had prevented unloading and threatened shortages of anything from bananas to auto parts. | Screencap via flickr.com/Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

U.S. port strike ends leaving cargo backlog

Reuters — U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast ports began reopening late on Thursday after dockworkers and port operators reached a wage deal to settle the industry’s biggest work stoppage in nearly half a century, but clearing the cargo backlog will take time. The strike ended sooner than investors had expected, weakening shipping stocks across […] Read more

There are nearly 100,000 containers in New York City-area ports alone waiting to be unloaded, now frozen by the strike, and 35 container ships headed to New York over the coming week, said Rick Cotton, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. |Screencap via flickr.com/Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

U.S. East Coast dockworkers strike, halting half of U.S. ocean shipping

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dockworkers on the U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast began a strike early on Tuesday, their first large-scale stoppage in nearly 50 years, halting the flow of about half the nation’s ocean shipping after negotiations for a new labor contract broke down over wages. The strike blocks everything from food to automobile shipments across dozens […] Read more