The Port Agreement – but expensive for Honda – Dagens Industri

The Port Agreement – but expensive for Honda – Dagens Industri

Harbor Agreement – but expensive for Honda

                  2015-02-21 22:35
             

In nine months, a union conflict in American ports concerned companies which trade between Asia and the US. Now, an agreement has been reached between shipping companies and stevedores.

The settlement affects employees in 29 ports on the US West Coast who have been agreements to resolve since last summer.

Disruptions in the supply of goods has been labeled both in automobile plants in the US and burger in Japan; delivery of goods by air increased costs for manufacturers and trade in many industries. But knepigast has perhaps been for agriculture in California and its production of fresh produce.

State was such that the US Labour Minister Thomas Perez few days ago, appeared in person to bring an end to the quarrel.

Automaker Honda, who had difficulty obtaining spare parts for its five plants in North America, is now saying that it takes a few days before production is in full swing and argues that the conflict has cost the equivalent of 25 000 vehicles in lost production

The five-year agreement covers 20,000 stevedores.

In the west coast ports handled almost half of US maritime freight transport and more than 70 per cent of imports from Asia.

Port Managers says that it can take up to eight weeks before they caught up so that freight traffic through the ports flowing normally.