LA, Long Beach Port Dockworker Absences Decline as Omicron Eases
- Absences are almost half the number reported a week earlier
- January infections exceeded all of 2021 at West Coast ports
The Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, California.
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Things are turning around for West Coast dockworkers unable to work due to the omicron spike last month, a welcome sign for the more than 100 ships waiting off the coast to unload at the U.S.’s two largest ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
The number of absences reported to port operators each day “continues to drop, which is great news and is also having a positive impact on our ability to operate at more normal levels of productivity,” Alan McCorkle, president of Yusen Terminals LLC at the Port of Los Angeles, said Wednesday.