Lost in the discussions over labor and concerns over delayed shipments to and from Asia: the people who sail with all that stuff.
For customers in the fashion, electronics, and retail industry who have been forced to cope with the Giant Port Shutdown of 2015, it's been a stressful few months. Although employers and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union came to a tentative agreement last week, more than 20 ships are still waiting offshore in what the Port of Long Beach's CEO has described as an "amazing" and "epic" backup of shipments.