…analysed here.
However, I’m not so sure he’s right to worry. A friend who works at a local airport who is in a position to know what he’s talking about says that two of the major airlines are taking seats out of their (currently idled) planes and flying cargo to and from Asia. Naturally you can’t fly a container-ship-load of containers that way, but you sure can take a bite out of maritime trade. And when the airlines have planes sitting around idle because of the passenger slump, why not get them back in the air flying cargo?
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When I went down to the Docks in San Pedro to talk to the Longshoreman there were over 100 ships out there waiting to be serviced and more up and down the coast.
Each ship holds an average of 3,000 containers and less than 1/2 of 1% is being inspected.
There were (are) plenty of reasons to worry about the implications of the lock-out especially considering it could happen again.
Like my friends say;
Don’t Work, work Union.