Air Charter Service’s (ACS) North American and Asian offices have secured more than $25M in cargo aircraft charters in three weeks due to the port strike on the US West Coast.  The charter firm said it has arranged more than 40 large charter flights so far, mainly with Boeing 747 Freighters.

ACS US operation president Richard Thompson said, “The port strikes here have affected 29 ports on the West Coast, which account for around 70% of all exports and imports to and from Asia, and many of these goods aren’t able to wait or production lines will be forced to shutdown, costing tens of millions of dollars.”

It is estimated that almost 5,000 tons of automotive parts, perishables and other urgent cargoes have been flown on wide body charter aircraft.

Full article in ship-technology.com