O’Regan said the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the B.C. Maritime Employers Association had accepted recommended terms for an agreement that he had presented to them a day earlier.
The development comes 13 days after the strike kicked off on July 1, stranding shipments coming in and out of the west coast province’s 30 ports – including Canada’s largest port in Vancouver As of Wednesday, the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade said there were 63,000 shipping containers waiting to be unloaded at B.C. ports.
Anderson said her organization has calculated that about $9.7 billion in trade has been affected by the strike. She also made the case that the federal government should use “every kind of tool that they have in their toolkit” if similar situations arise in the future.