The chief executive in charge of Georgia's two busy seaports says a strike by dockworkers on the East and Gulf coasts seems likely next week.

Tens of thousands of dockworkers are on strike after the International Longshoremen's Association and the US Maritime Alliance failed to agree.

Around 45,000 dockworkers went on strike Tuesday for the first time in almost 50 years, in a move that could temporarily put up to 105,000 workers out of work. Thirty-six East and Gulf Coast ports from Maine to Texas are affected after labor negotiations stalled between the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA),