PORT STRIKE: CAN WEST COAST PORTS ABSORB EAST AND GULF COAST IMPORT ... certainly don’t want as a nation any factors that takes us the other way so I think it’s probably the foremost of ...

Retailers in recent months have accelerated holiday imports to mitigate and are moving other shipments to the US West Coast where possible ... incurring extra costs to ship and store those goods.

So while East Coast workers are walking the picket line, West ... us for some time prior to the actual strike,” said Leal Sundet, the secretary treasurer of the International Longshore and ...

Denim maker Levi, which gets most of its products into the United States through the East Coast from Asia, said it had made ...

By July, the West Coast share of US inbound cargo jumped to 50 percent ... and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) had expired. The PMA was able to continue operations at ...

Companies have been taking steps for months, including by diverting shipments to West Coast ports ... to ship and store those goods. Retail behemoth Walmart, the largest US container shipper ...

Update: US port workers and operat o rs reach a deal to end East Coast strike immediately on Oct. 3. Read more. During her lunch break on Tuesday – the day 45,000 East Coast port workers went ...

club manager of the Palm Coast BJ's store, in a news release issued Thursday morning. "We're looking forward to taking care ...

Retailers like Levi and Costco plan to shift routes, use air freight to avoid delays Newell Brands offers to boost production to mitigate supply chain disruptions Toy companies rely more on West ...

“Nothing is going to move without us,” ILA International President ... And ports on the West Coast aren’t part of the contract dispute. Even the appearance of such a sharp blow to the ...

Update: US port workers and operators ... afford to take inventories early and store them – or absorb the cost of rerouting shipments to the West Coast – smaller businesses typically can ...

US East Coast Port Strike Looms as Union, Management Trade Wage Offers By David Shepardson, Doyinsola Oladipo and Lisa Baertlein (Reuters) -With U.S. East and Gulf Coast port workers set to strike ...