On the morning of April 7, it was reported that a shutdown incident occurred in Los Angeles and Long Beach, the largest container ports in the United States, which aroused strong concern in the industry!
First of all, for yesterday's reasons for the closure of the dock shutdown gate, JOC's latest report gives the reason "job action by ILWU" (American dock union's "work action"), while the latest official announcement from Pacific Maritime Association PMA(Pacific Maritime Association) gives the explanation:
"The West Coast's largest local dockers association ILWU took concerted action to refuse to arrange workers for Los Angeles and Long Beach ports"!
A comprehensive analysis of JOC's latest report and the US Pacific Maritime Association's official statement shows that the reason for the sudden shutdown of Los Angeles Long Beach port is neither "irresistible factor" nor ambiguous "Unforeseen circumstance". The reason for the sudden shutdown of the port is because of the dock workers' strike!
compared with the official announcement of the terminal and the cover-up of the US media, the feedback from the US port and shipping industry to the first airline at noon yesterday was simpler and clearer: the skilled worker (steady labor) who opened the crane decided not to go to work, resulting in problems in lifting the cabinet and unloading the ship. (So the dock closes the gate and notifies all trailers not to come)
American Port Association PMA Latest Statement
According to the latest information from One Shipping: After the Los Angeles and Long Beach shutdowns, the first official statement came from the U.S. Pacific Maritime Association PMA(Pacific Maritime Association), which not only talked about the cause of the incident, but also the latest progress of the incident. You can check it yourself.
PMA announcement link:
https://www.pmanet.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/PMA_Statement_4.7.23.pdf
PMA announcement content:
Based on the above latest statement of the US Pacific Maritime Association PMA(Pacific Maritime Association), it can be seen that the strike of Los Angeles and Long Beach dockers is still continuing on Friday (Beijing time Saturday), and the weekend coincides with the western Easter Day, so it is basically certain that this weekend Los Angeles and Long Beach Port will not reopen!
And next Monday, whether the two major ports in the United States and West can end the strike to resume operations, will be the industry's most concerned topic, because how the strike continues, for the recent arrival of the ship loading and unloading operations, and even for the arrival of the shipping company on April 15 to push up the freight, will have a chain reaction.
Source: One Shipping