Potash production slows in Sask. due to Port of Vancouver strike
CTV
As the BC port workers’ strike stretches into its second week, potash production is being impacted in Saskatchewan.
As the BC port workers’ strike stretches into its second week, potash production is being impacted in Saskatchewan.
“Vancouver just sneezed, and the rest of us caught a cold,” said Keith Willoughby, dean of the Edwards School of Business.
With more than 7,000 port workers striking for better pay and protection from automation, Saskatchewan fertilizer giant Nutrien announced it would curtail production at its Cory plant as a result.
“It’s the news a lot of us are worried about,” Willoughby told CTV News. “Because we’re concerned with the news of curtailing production at the Nutrien plant. Will this be the first shoe to drop in terms of other industries that might be impacted by the situation?”
Willoughby says industries are barely now recovering from the impacts of the supply chain issues caused by the pandemic.
“We've seen over the past three years that supply chains have been vulnerable to different situations that have been experienced across the globe,” he said.
“We pride ourselves in this province that we have an economy -and rightly so- that is built upon a real treasure of natural resources that we can use to our advantage. But then we have the challenges when those natural resources can't get to where they're needed. We face now the economic challenges associated with the circumstances that we're observing in the Port of Vancouver.”
