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Labor unions, maritime shipping interests and other supply chain businesses have formed a new trade group to push for more domestic infrastructure investment to safeguard the supply chain. "We are bringing the links of the supply chain together," said Josh Wood, CEO of the Supply Chain Council. "We will be championing legislation to strengthen supply chain resiliency and jobs." Wood said that before Covid, supply chain segments were most often viewed independently, and the need to focus on interconnectedness of freight segments has continued to increased with the supply chain experiencing major headwinds. One of the contentious aspects of a strong supply chain is the introduction of automation.
Persons: Johnson, Josh Wood, Wood, There's, Steven Hussain, Hussain, Josh LaFarga, LaFarga, It's, Harold J, Daggett Organizations: Labor, Chain Council, Johnson Controls, Northern Rail Company, SSA Marine, International Union of, Pacific Merchant Shipping Association, Prologis, Community Relations, CNBC, Southern, Workers, Longshoremen's Association, Gulf Ports, United States Maritime Alliance Locations: Prologis, International Union of North America, Panama, Southern California, East Coast, Gulf, United States
The Port of Long Beach is the second-busiest U.S. container terminal and a key driver of economic activity. That industry accounts for about half of the volume at the nation's container ports and is gearing up for back-to-school, Christmas and key sales events. That facility is majority owned by container shipping giant Mediterranean Shipping Company SA (MSC). Pacific Container Terminal, owned by Carrix Inc's SSA Marine, was closed on Monday for normal operational reasons having nothing to do with labor, terminal general manager Randy Galosic told Reuters. Many West Coast terminals are fully or partly owned by those shipping companies.
Persons: Biden, dockworkers, David French, TTI, Lee Peterson, Randy Galosic, Lisa Baertlein, Will Dunham, Chizu Organizations: National Retail Federation, Mediterranean Shipping Company SA, Warehouse Union, Coast, Container, Carrix, SSA, Reuters, ILWU, Long, Thomson Locations: ANGELES, West Coast, Southern California's Port, Long, Oakland , California, California, Washington, TTI, Los Angeles, Oakland, Long Beach, West
The previous monthly data was the first time New York topped the West Coast and was being watched as a tipping point. Fears of a strike among West Coast port workers is one of the primary reasons behind the coastal shift in trade to the U.S. The freight railroads have shifted with the port trade trends as the East Coast has gained. "We expect the East Coast trend to continue, and our railroad is ready to deliver for more than half of the country's consumers and manufacturers," he said. As more trade has moved east, port congestion has come with it.
Tensions are rising in West Coast port labor battles as unions and port management trade accusations about worker productivity and the awarding of job assignments. Jerome Roberts, GVP of marketing at supply chain consulting company Blume Global, told CNBC the one shift protest had no lasting productivity impact. Logistics companies fear the latest round of accusations will only increase tensions for a supply chain and national port infrastructure already dealing with multiple labor concerns. Project44, which also collects and analyzes port productivity for the CNBC Supply Chain Heat Map, has tracked some recent issues at Seattle operations. Container dwell times at the Port of Oakland have been improving over the month of September, according to Josh Brazil, vice president of supply chain insights at Project44.
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