The delivery of local imported cargo at Port Metro Vancouver is being interrupted as the standoff between striking truckers and the Canadian government showed no signs of ending today.
With the strike entering its third week, and truck traffic at Canada’s largest port down to a trickle, marine terminals are running out of storage space. The terminals are accepting intermodal rail cargo that is not truck dependent, but they will not offload imported containers destined for the Vancouver area.
A spokesperson for Evergreen said the carrier informed customers with local Vancouver cargo on a vessel that arrived over the weekend that the containers would be dropped off at the Port of Tacoma in Washington.