The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade estimates that more than $600,000 million worth of trade has been disrupted in just the first 18 hours of the West Coast work stoppage.

In July, an incendiary device exploded in a container due to be loaded on to a DHL cargo plane in each of three U.K. and EU locations.

Airbus is planning to replace the head of its commercial aircraft business, and stick with its goal to deliver about 770 aircraft this year.