Business Brief: Coastal labour strife crunches supply chains

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Strikes at airlines and railways are out. Strikes at key ports of trade are in. Today, we look at how labour pains across North America are squeezing supply chains and running headlong into already damaging tariff wars. But first:Ships are being forced to stay at anchor after a strike at six Vancouver grain terminals created bottlenecks in the supply chain from the Prairies to the West Coast,

The potential closing of 36 ports covering the East and Gulf coasts, including five of North America’s 10 busiest ports, comes as the world is already grappling to move goods along in the wake of the pandemic. “While I doubt it would be enough to rekindle inflation in goods, it could aggravate a slowdown in manufacturing activity that we are seeing in many key economies, which could in turn affect Canadian plants.”

But Slack said it wouldn’t be possible for Halifax to handle anywhere close to the amount of traffic that typically lands at U.S. ports. “There is also the questions of whether Halifax longshoremen would handle ‘hot’ traffic,” he said. Wednesday’s vote isn’t likely to calm global executives who have taken notice of Canada’s railway saga. Jeremy Nixon, chief executive of Japanese shipping company Ocean Network Express, cited the “risk of a rail strike sometime in October and November” as a reason for caution over sending vessels to Halifax and Montreal.

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