LA Ports Prepare to Manage Ship Traffic as Labor Disrupts Cargo
- ‘Basically every’ vessel seeing delays, says Marine Exchange
- Ongoing labor-related disruptions spread to ship operations
A cargo ship docked at the LBCT container terminal at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, California.
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Most container ships through the biggest import gateway in the US face delays as labor-related disruptions widen on the West Coast and threaten another cargo logjam.
“Basically every container vessel is having their schedule pushed back by about a day or two,” Richard Palmer of the Marine Exchange of Southern California said in an emailed operations update. He said the main reason he’s seen is a lack of “lashers,” or longshoremen who secure containers aboard ships.