Dock Workers and Shipping Lines Widen Boycott of Russian Trade
- More than 1,700 ships connected to Russia might be banned
- World governments sanction Russia for assault on Ukraine
Shipping containers at Port Botany in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Dock workers around the world are pushing to widen bans on Russian ships from their ports, moves that would potentially blacklist more than 1,700 vessels connected to the country as its invasion of Ukraine strains already-disrupted global supply chains.
Longshoreman unions from Canada, the U.S. and Australia are taken the steps on their own or are asking their governments to refuse entry to Russian merchant ships, following the U.K.’s decision to do so as part of a growing array of sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s regime.