Sentence examples for port strike from inspiring English sources

[Page C9.] Bush Intervenes in Port Strike A federal judge has approved President Bush's request to reopen West Coast ports, ending a caustic lockout.

Concerns about a possible port strike in Brazil helped the rally.

Strikes in January 2016 were the first national port strike at Patrick Stevedores since 1998.

Locke lingers on the port strike, but then it is the catalyst for Jay's political reawakening.

The port strike was why I ditched Greece and hopped right from Albania to Istanbul last week.

The company said revenue had been hurt by the West Coast port strike and weak grain exports.

In Marseille, France's biggest port, striking port workers and garbage collectors left dozens of oil tankers idle at sea and nearly 9,000 tons of trash piled up in the streets.

Quite apart from the environmental costs of long distance transportation, such lengthy journeys increase the risk of delays (for example, port strikes and storms) and food going to waste.

Apart from a 2001 blockade of the main road leading to the port by striking truck drivers that lasted only several days, the last wide-scale organized labor actions appear to have been during attempted Communist-backed port strikes in the 1960s, when Hong Kong, a British colony at the time, felt the effects of China's Cultural Revolution.

"Software is not affected by things like port strikes," explains Hocherman.

Shipstr also has "teamrooms" that allow businesses to communicate directly with service providers, see which one has their freight, and collect shipping documents, as well as a news aggregator that notes things like storms and port strikes that might affect the speed of a shipment.