The port strike affecting U.S. eastern seaboard has ended thanks to an agreement between the Longshoremen's union and the Maritime Alliance, but effects linger.

Nearly 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are on strike Tuesday against the nation’s East and Gulf Coast ports, choking off the flow of many of America’s imports and exports in what could become the country’s most disruptive work stoppage in decades.