CANADIAN exporters are missing sailings because of ship delays at US west coast ports, reports Newark's Journal of Commerce.
Canadian International Freight Forwarders Association executive director Ruth Snowden said Canadians expecting 30-day transit, find they face at least another 10 to 12-day delays and in some cases up to three weeks because ships are waiting in US west coast ports.
Carriers now shorten loading windows to restore schedules, leaving Canadian exporters in lurch in the Port Metro Vancouver, she told the Cargo Logistics Canada conference in Vancouver.
Missed loadings, because of narrower loading windows or cancelled sailings, cause shipments to pile up, preventing other exporters getting their loads into terminals.
The impact of the delays are worse than they need to be because some carriers fail to report their failings to shippers, and when they do, it's too late, Ms Snowden said.
"Asia pulp importers are particularly upset, and there's serious concern that we'll lose share in that market" because Canadians are failing to meet delivery dates, she said.
Export shippers suffer roll-overs because the surge of US bound cargo stresses terminals, said Western Canadian Shippers Coalition chairman David Montpetit, whose members mostly export containerised forest products to Asia.
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05 February 2015 - 21:47
Canadians suffer dissolving schedules as US west coast trouble moves north
CANADIAN exporters are missing sailings because of ship delays at US west coast ports, reports Newark's Journal of Commerce.
PORTS
05 February 2015 - 21:47
Canadians suffer dissolving schedules as US west coast trouble moves north
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