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Impact Of Dockworkers Strike On US Air Cargo?

Lindy field From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 3072 posts, RR: 15
Posted (10 years 7 months 3 weeks 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 1194 times:

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I was just wondering about the situation at US west coast ports, which are currently in a state of lockdown, with ships laying idle at port, unable to unload their cargoes. As far as I know, there's not much chance of an immediate resolution of the labor dispute. This is supposedly costing the US economy a billion dollars a day. Given the situation, are air freight carriers like UPS or FedEx benefiting? Is there any chance of a redeployment of aircraft in the Western US? Thanks in advance for your replies.

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Marcus From Mexico, joined Apr 2001, 1719 posts, RR: 2
Reply 1, posted (10 years 7 months 3 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 1185 times:

Oh yes they are benefiting.....this lockdown was supossed to have happened in July or August so everyone importing material from Asia stocked up in supplies, but when it did not happen we all lowered our guards sort of speak, now this slowdown and subsequent lockout caught us with our pants down and we are in need to fly a ridiculous ammount of material from Asia, needless to say air freight companies have jacked up their prices and the avalability of cargo space on airliners is ver very very limited.

As for UPS and FedEx who use their own planes I do not know, for urgent material they are slower so we try to avoid them.

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Bobcat From United States of America, joined Jun 2007, 0 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (10 years 7 months 3 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 1164 times:

Canadian ports on the west coast are not affected. A lot
of ships which are are currently in eastern Pacific are
planning to dock at Canadian portst, if the situation on
the west coast of the US does not resolve itself soon.

It will mean extra cost to truck those shipments from
Canada back into the US... but still a lot cheaper than
shipping by air freight. (at least for cargo that's not time-
sensitive)

On the other hand, many Asian airlines are already
planning to add a few more cargo flights... particulary
from China/Korea/Japan/Taiwan/Singapore to the USA.

BlatantEcho From United States of America, joined Sep 2000, 1868 posts, RR: 1
Reply 3, posted (10 years 7 months 3 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 1156 times:

I've heard that Canadian dockworkers will offload no ship that was destined for American ports but decided to try to unload in Canada.

That bulk freight that is on the ships though is probably impossible or hardly viable to ship in little planes Smile

Those ships are HUGE!

George

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