While North American shippers and forwarders nervously await the next developments in the apparent stand-off between dockworkers and terminal operators on the US east coast, carriers’ network planners will be drawing up alternatives should a port shutdown take place.
However, a recent analysis by the eeSea liner database of how shipping services responded to the threat of a widespread rail strike in Canada provides some indication of how carriers may react …
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