"This is just another headache after everything else we've been dealing with," said Kenneth Sanchez, CEO of Chesapeake Specialty Products, which sends goods like metallic abrasives and foundry sand additives used to make engine blocks and transmissions to customers around the world. His main port is in Baltimore, one of three dozen covered by an expiring contract between the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) union representing 45,000 port workers and the United States Maritime Alliance employer group, whose renewal talks are at an impasse over pay.
"Things were just starting to get back to normal," he said. Now, he is working on a plan to put shipments on trains to West Coast ports - should the ILA's members go on a prolonged strike at ports that stretch from Maine to Texas and handle about half of U.S. ocean trade.
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