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Maersk has been emphasizing that they're back up at most of their ports, but not emphasizing that the really big automated ones, Elizabeth NJ, LA, and Rotterdam were hit hard. The mainstream press gets their info from press releases. Most of the press coverage reads "Maersk says". I have yet to see an article where someone went down at the docks to find out what's going on, or called a union rep, or talked to truckers.

There's coverage on gcaptain.[1] Mentions on Reuters.[2] There's lots of coverage on the sites that cover container shipping. Most of the people in that business are probably working overtime right now. With Maersk down, cargo all over the world had to be re-routed.

All the status info is on line, but not in a journalist-friendly form. Maersk has a temporary "Operational Update" page.[3] You have to read through a lot of material to see what's up and what's down. As of late today, almost everything is at least limping along except at Maasvlakte II in Rotterdam. Their web site for booking and tracking has a banner which says "Submit Shipping Instructions and Booking are available but without email confirmation. Tracking, Online Quote and Binder are unavailable. Schedules last updated 27th Jun so may be inconsistent." This is not "back to normal".

Here is the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's latest alert page for truckers: [4] That's a good read, because it's a no-bullshit source of info. Somewhere at the Port Authority, there's someone with a clue who gathers that info and gets it out. Staying open late and operating Saturday is not normal. Maersk APM's status page for LA is totally bogus; it hasn't changed in the last week.[5] The online gate webcams at Maersk's port in LA are still down.

(I've followed this subject because I'm interested in mobile robots which do something useful. Maersk's Maasvlakte II terminal is one of the largest mobile robot operations in the world. Probably the biggest by tonnage. Downtime on this scale is a major event in robot history.)

[1] http://gcaptain.com/maersk-hopes-full-cyber-recovery-early-n... [2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-attack-maersk-idUSK... [3] http://www.maersk.com/en/operationalupdate [4] https://www.paalerts.com/recentmessages.aspx [5] http://www.apmterminals.com/en/operations/north-america/los-...




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