Port strike could have ‘devastating consequences’ for consumers: Expert

Port strike could have ‘devastating consequences’ for consumers: Expert

Port of Miami dockworkers strike near the port entrance and demand a new labor contract, on October 1, 2024 in Miami, Florida.  Giorgio Viera | Afp | Getty Images A dockworker strike at seaports along the U.S. East and Gulf coasts is expected to cause massive problems for global supply chains and the economy. American consumers will likely … Read more

Blockbuster weight-loss drug supply hit in trade shutdown

Blockbuster weight-loss drug supply hit in trade shutdown

An Eli Lilly & Co. Zepbound injection pen, March 28, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images As a port strike stretching from New England to Texas halted nearly half of all trade coming into the U.S., customs data shows that critical medical devices and drug components for the booming, expensive weight-loss and diabetes drugs … Read more

East Coast ports strike, ILA union work stop strands billions in trade

East Coast ports strike, ILA union work stop strands billions in trade

 Shipping containers sit stacked in the Port of Newark on September 30, 2024 seen from New York City. A massive strike shutting down ports across the East and Gulf coasts began at midnight as members of the International Longshoremen’s Association continue to make salary and other demands to the United States Maritime Alliance, which controls … Read more

Truckers, rails scrambling to move billions in cargo

Truckers, rails scrambling to move billions in cargo

Shipping containers stacked at a storage yard outside of the APM Terminals yard at the Port of Mobile in Mobile, Alabama, US, on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. Micah Green | Bloomberg | Getty Images With a potential strike at ports up and down the East Coast and along the Gulf Coast set to begin after … Read more

Largest port on East Coast begins preparations for a strike

Largest port on East Coast begins preparations for a strike

Port of New York/New Jersey executives tell CNBC they have begun preparations for a potential complete work stoppage by the International Longshoreman’s Association, the largest union in North America. The ILA represents over 85,000 longshoremen and a strike would shut down five of the 10 busiest ports in North America, and a total of 36 … Read more

Trump trade policies will fuel freight rates and consumers pay price

Trump trade policies will fuel freight rates and consumers pay price

A cargo ship is sailing towards the docking of a foreign trade container terminal in Qingdao Port, Shandong province, in Qingdao, China, on June 7, 2024. Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Trade analysts are warning that new tariffs threatened by former President Donald Trump, which he doubled down on during Tuesday night’s presidential debate, … Read more

Port union voices full support for strike, raising U.S. economic fears

Largest port on East Coast begins preparations for a strike

Tugboats guide the Maersk Atlanta container ship at the Port of Newark in Newark, New Jersey, US, on Saturday, March 30, 2024.  Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images After two days of meetings of North America’s largest longshoremen’s union amid an impasse with port ownership on a new contract, concerns of a strike are growing … Read more

Canadian rail lockout leaves billions in U.S. trade stranded

Canadian rail lockout leaves billions in U.S. trade stranded

Locked out railway workers demonstrate outside of the CN Rail Brampton yard on August 22, 2024 in Brampton ON, Canada.  Ian Willms | Getty Images Canada’s Labor Minister Steven MacKinnon announced at a press conference on Thursday that he had directed the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) to review his request for binding arbitration and … Read more

Lineage begins trading in stock market’s largest IPO of 2024

Lineage begins trading in stock market’s largest IPO of 2024

Lineage, the largest temperature-controlled warehouse real estate investment trust (REIT) in the world, rose by as much as 5% in its Nasdaq Stock Market debut on Thursday, after going public under the ticker symbol “LINE.” Lineage priced 57 million shares at $78 apiece on Wednesday, near the top of its initial $70 to $82 target range. … Read more

Port of Virginia’s plan to be No. 1 for super-sized ocean cargo ships

Port of Virginia’s plan to be No. 1 for super-sized ocean cargo ships

A truck picking up a container at the NIT Terminal at the Port of Virginia. NIT Terminal is the largest terminal at the port with more than 90 semi-automated stacking cranes. Lori Ann LaRocco | CNBC The Port of Virginia is on track to become the functionally widest and deepest port on the U.S. East … Read more