A potential dockworker strike on the East Coast threatens to disrupt supply chains, impact holiday shopping, and cause widespread economic damage.
Late last week, the CEO of Flexport - one of largest US supply-chain logistics operators - warned that 'the biggest wild card in the presidential election that nobody’s talking about The looming port strike that could shut down all East and Gulf Coast ports just 36 days before the election.” With just over a week to go until D-Day, authorities are gearing up as a threatened strike by dockworkers at ports along the East Coast and Gulf Coast draws closer.
'There will be a shutdown, assuming that there's is no intervention, at midnight on Monday the 30th,' Bethann Rooney, director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the nation's second-busiest port, told a briefing earlier in the week. Should that occur, all activity loading and unloading cargo containers and automobiles would come to a standstill, while cruise ships would continue to operate, Rooney said.
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