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Vancouver truckers’ strike hits shippers

The delivery of local imported cargo at Port Metro Vancouver is being interrupted as the standoff between striking truckers and the Canadian government showed no signs of ending today.
With the strike entering its third week, and truck traffic at Canada’s largest port down to a trickle, marine terminals are running out of storage space. The terminals are accepting intermodal rail cargo that is not truck dependent, but they will not offload imported containers destined for the Vancouver area.
A spokesperson for Evergreen said the carrier informed customers with local Vancouver cargo on a vessel that arrived over the weekend that the containers would be dropped off at the Port of Tacoma in Washington.
Source: Journal of Commerce

Sea Star, Horizon Lines agree to $3.4 million settlement over price fixing claims

Among the contracts affected were U.S. Postal Service contracts to transport mail and Department of Agriculture contracts to ship food. Both Sea Star Line and Horizon Lines previously pleaded guilty, in related criminal proceedings, to anticompetitive conduct in violation of the Sherman Act.Jones Act shipping companies Sea Star Line and Horizon Lines have agreed to pay a combine $3.4 million to settle claims over their involvement in a price fixing scheme related to government transportation contracts.
Under the settlement agreements, Sea Star Line has agreed to pay $1.9 million, and Horizon Lines has agreed to pay $1.5 million, according to the Department of Justice.
The government alleged that former executives of the defendant ocean shippers used personal email accounts to communicate confidential bidding information, thereby enabling each of the shippers to know the transportation rates that its competitor intended to submit to federal agencies for specific routes. This information allowed the shippers to allocate specific routes between themselves at predetermined rates.
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