Strike shuts down Port of Baltimore, just months after its reopening

The International Longshoremen’s Association and its 45,000 members from Maine to Texas went on strike Tuesday after a last-minute exchange of contract offers with the U.S. Maritime Association failed to produce a contract agreement. The strike shuts down operations at the Port of Baltimore just months after federal and state agencies managed to reopen the facility that had been closed by the March 26 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge into the Patapsco River, blocking shipping channels in and out of marine terminals there.