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More than 7,000 B.C. port workers now on strike

Traditionally Vancouver is one of the most expensive ports in north america, this isn't gonna help.
Your stuff is probably waiting in San Diego or LA, not Vancouver. Shippers will try to avoid Vancouver... even if the goods are bound for the Vancouver area.
I don't know if it still in effect but Vancouver had a rule that if the sea can was destined for anywhere within a 160km (IIRC) of the Vancouver port, the can had to be unloaded at the port, sorta negating the benefits of a sea can... which eventually degenerated into the union would send out 4 longshoremen to sit and look at your sea can for 4 hours, so then they could say they unloaded the can, and put the load into another can. It was just a make work program for the dock workers.
The port legislated all the trucks had to be no more than 5 years old to enter the port, which wasn't very popular, but everyone bought trucks... then they legislated clean idle trucks, so everyone had to buy new trucks, AGAIN... NOW they want quiet trucks.
The port of Vancouver has always been a mess, they should contract it out to the mafia like in Montreal
 
Is it just me, or wouldn't a strike result in the opposite of "to protect longshore workers from record-high inflation and the skyrocketing cost of living"?
 
bitzz said:
Traditionally Vancouver is one of the most expensive ports in north america, this isn't gonna help.
Your stuff is probably waiting in San Diego or LA, not Vancouver. Shippers will try to avoid Vancouver... even if the goods are bound for the Vancouver area.
I don't know if it still in effect but Vancouver had a rule that if the sea can was destined for anywhere within a 160km (IIRC) of the Vancouver port, the can had to be unloaded at the port, sorta negating the benefits of a sea can... which eventually degenerated into the union would send out 4 longshoremen to sit and look at your sea can for 4 hours, so then they could say they unloaded the can, and put the load into another can. It was just a make work program for the dock workers.
The port legislated all the trucks had to be no more than 5 years old to enter the port, which wasn't very popular, but everyone bought trucks... then they legislated clean idle trucks, so everyone had to buy new trucks, AGAIN... NOW they want quiet trucks.
The port of Vancouver has always been a mess, they should contract it out to the mafia like in Montreal
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Sounds about right for a gov operation.
 
bitzz said:
Traditionally Vancouver is one of the most expensive ports in north america, this isn't gonna help.
Your stuff is probably waiting in San Diego or LA, not Vancouver. Shippers will try to avoid Vancouver... even if the goods are bound for the Vancouver area.
I don't know if it still in effect but Vancouver had a rule that if the sea can was destined for anywhere within a 160km (IIRC) of the Vancouver port, the can had to be unloaded at the port, sorta negating the benefits of a sea can... which eventually degenerated into the union would send out 4 longshoremen to sit and look at your sea can for 4 hours, so then they could say they unloaded the can, and put the load into another can. It was just a make work program for the dock workers.
The port legislated all the trucks had to be no more than 5 years old to enter the port, which wasn't very popular, but everyone bought trucks... then they legislated clean idle trucks, so everyone had to buy new trucks, AGAIN... NOW they want quiet trucks.
The port of Vancouver has always been a mess, they should contract it out to the mafia like in Montreal
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BC port workers are going to shoot themselves in the foot.

Vancouver is ranked 367 out of 370 international ports for efficiency. The best a BC port achieves is 344th place. On average the province is in the bottom 2% worldwide.

And it's getting worse as carriers are diverting more cargo to Mexico and thru the widened Panama Canal to Gulf state ports.

Unions across Ontario killed themselves off in droves over the last 2 decades... you'd think they'd have learned to read the tea leaves.

I suspect things will get grim for longshore workers if they lose any more cargo.
 
sburns said:
Is that possible? Wouldn't that still be going through Canadian waters, I'm sure the gov would find a tax for that.
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I believe the US is claiming that the NWP isn’t Canadian but international waters…
 
mimico_polak said:
I believe the US is claiming that the NWP isn’t Canadian but international waters…
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Oh boy, lets see how useless our Gov is when the US tries to steamroll that one.

I was also wondering wouldn't it be clogged with ice some parts of the year, or maybe if enough traffic it won't have time to form.
 
sburns said:
Oh boy, lets see how useless our Gov is when the US tries to steamroll that one.

I was also wondering wouldn't it be clogged with ice some parts of the year, or maybe if enough traffic it won't have time to form.
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Thank global warming.
 
Have heard about certain crime group "running" the port out there.. not sure if true but this article might shed some light on it with strategically placed employees.

www.thestar.com

Organized criminals and associates work on Vancouver docks, government files say

Smuggling ‘certain’ to continue on Canada’s West Coast as organized criminals enjoy widespread corruption and massive profits, according to government reports obtained by The Star
www.thestar.com www.thestar.com
 
crankcall said:
For goods coming into Ontario from Van, the rail to get the can to Ontario is miserable. But we did drop from 22,000 a can to $6,500 so thats better
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Our top was 22500USD for a 40 from Asia. Last can was under $4k, thankfully on the rails days before the strike.
 
Not sure if it's true, but I heard that the workers who move vehicles from the vessel to the lot make $137k a year, at Annacis Port.
 
And they're back on strike again. Mediator proposed a settlement, union brass rejected it for typical union reasons (want shorter term for more opportunities to cause disruption, want more protection, want more union jobs, etc) without bringing it to the members.
 
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