MANUFACTURERS are looking to air cargo to move products blocked by the Canadian trucking protests that have hit supply chains on both sides of the US-Canada border, Reuters reports.
Protesters have occupied key border crossings between the United States and Canada as part of two-week old demonstrations against pandemic measures and vaccine mandates.
With more than two-thirds of the C$650 billion (US$511 billion) in goods traded annually between Canada and the United States moving via roads, the choking of key arteries has upended already stressed supply chains.
That has manufacturers, including carmakers like Ford looking for alternative routes and forms of transport to move supplies.
Ford is looking at flying in some auto parts to a plant in Windsor, Ontario that produces engines for popular models, an official with the union representing auto workers at the plant said.
Mike Stopay, director of Toronto-area cargo specialist Pacer Air Freight, said he had received requests from some auto-parts and pharmaceutical companies to transport products by air due to the protests on the vital Ambassador Bridge.
'All these parts are needed just in time,' he said. 'I can't take the chance to sit around at the border for eight hours.'
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Protesters have occupied key border crossings between the United States and Canada as part of two-week old demonstrations against pandemic measures and vaccine mandates.
With more than two-thirds of the C$650 billion (US$511 billion) in goods traded annually between Canada and the United States moving via roads, the choking of key arteries has upended already stressed supply chains.
That has manufacturers, including carmakers like Ford looking for alternative routes and forms of transport to move supplies.
Ford is looking at flying in some auto parts to a plant in Windsor, Ontario that produces engines for popular models, an official with the union representing auto workers at the plant said.
Mike Stopay, director of Toronto-area cargo specialist Pacer Air Freight, said he had received requests from some auto-parts and pharmaceutical companies to transport products by air due to the protests on the vital Ambassador Bridge.
'All these parts are needed just in time,' he said. 'I can't take the chance to sit around at the border for eight hours.'
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