Fastener Importers’ Numbers Show What West Coast Slowdown Is Doing
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Speaking to fastener importers, FIN finds the U.S. West Coast dockworkers slowdown and impending strike has already affected supply.
• Continental-Aero has shipments from Asia are taking as much as double the traditional time.
• Brighton-Best International finds “getting new containers booked in Asia is a challenge due to lack of containers going back in a timely manner,” Peggy Hsieh pointed out.
• The slowdown began last summer and “has increasingly gotten worse,” Kameron Dorsey of Beacon Fasteners finds.
• Bill Giddins of Continental-Aero sees the short strike as a possible solution.
• Tom Bigot of XL Screw suggested “A strike would not initially present a problem, but depends on how long a strike would last.”
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