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TP Pulse: Most shippers braced for big surcharges if ILA struck

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

The vast proportion of transpacific shippers surveyed last week by American Shipper said they were advised by their carriers that they would be hit with sizable port congestion surcharges if U.S. East and Gulf coast ports were shuttered by a dockworkers' strike in early October. As it turned out, shippers were given a reprieve when the International Longshoremen's Association and its employers agreed to a three-month extension in contract talks under the eye of a federal media...

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