Nearly 50,000 dockworkers in the US are on strike for the first time in decades, halting the flow of about half the country's ...

U.S. ports from Maine to Texas shut down Tuesday when the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for the ...

While any port can handle any type of goods, some ports are specialized to handle goods for a particular industry.

The ports affected by the shutdown include Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, New York/New Jersey and Norfolk, Virginia.