Re: Your wife's Christmas present may be stuck on a Hanjin container.
Author: jst3751
Date: 09-03-2016 - 01:47
George Andrews Wrote:
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> Hanjin is / was 7th largest Steamship Co. ( SSCO )
> Worldwide; largest shipping line HQ'ed in Korea,
> though Hyundai is close behind in size. A Hanjin
> ship is due at Port of Seattle Terminal 46
> Saturday AM. Unknown as of now if this ship will
> be unloaded, as Port is demanding C.O.D. before
> they will even allow it to dock. ( T-46 would not
> accept any Hanjin cans, loaded or empty, Thursday
> or today. My employer stacked up mty HJCU cans in
> our yard today to return Port chassis that were
> drawing Per Diem.) Hanjin @ Olympic Container
> Terminal in Port of Tacoma sez they will unload
> this same ship when it calls there next week. This
> is likely due to pressure from Costco, Amazon &
> REI for import product with Xmas rush buildup. ( I
> do not know if Starfleet Command is / was a Hanjin
> customer. )
> Speculation is other SSCo's will haul Hanjin
> loads on Hanjin rates & bills of lading out of
> U.S. Ports to try & gain export business from
> current Hanjin customers. This tactic has been
> common in the U.S. Trucking Industry; when
> Consolidated Freightways pulled the pin in 2002 (
> on Labor Day Weekend ), Northwest Regional
> carriers Oak Harbor & Peninsula ( both also
> Teamster ) finished deliveries on local CF
> shipments, while ABF handled the nationwide stuff.
My understanding is that any ship that was already docked as of Wednesday morning and already had crews assigned to unload or already in the process of being unloaded would finish unloading. Any ship already being loaded would finish being loaded. However no Hanjin ship would be allowed to leave port (moved from dock to port water mooring) and no ship would be accepted into a port to unload unless some company stepped forward to guarantee payment of the pilot, tugs and dock facilities and labor.