With dockworkers threatening to strike this weekend,
businesses that rely on tens of billions of dollars worth of cargo flowing
through the New York-New Jersey waterfront are starting to make costly
contingency plans.
The International Longshoremen’s Association, whose grip
extends across East Coast and Gulf Coast ports, is preparing to walk off the
job on Sunday after failing to reach a deal with a group of shippers and port
operators over container royalties.
The threat of a huge port shutdown has already led some
supply-chain managers to divert their goods to other ports and ship them by
rail or air instead…
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