With pickets up at Port of Nanaimo and Port Alberni, containers aren’t being filled and cargo from pulp and paper manufacturer Paper Excellence is sitting in a warehouse.
Pickets were up Tuesday at both the Port of Nanaimo’s downtown port, which handles mainly vehicles and logs, and its Duke Point facility, as a strike by waterfront workers brings some cargo transport to a halt.
It’s unclear where the Grand Pioneer, which left Portland, Oregon, on July 2 for Vancouver Island and flies under the flag of Panama, might go next if it can’t unload in B.C. With no barges moving, containers are not being filled with products for export, which means that if the job action continues, goods will get backed up in the supply chain.
Freight carried by Seaspan includes a vast array of consumer goods, everything from groceries to electronic equipment.
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