The strike lasted for two years, and the Neptune Jade, which had set sail for Oakland, California, was refused entry in Oakland, Vancouver, Kobe, and Yokohama as workers in ports there refused to unload it out of solidarity. Finally, in October, 1997, it docked at Kaohsiung, and the ship's owners auctioned it and its contents off as one package.
罷工事件持續 2 年後，一艘原定在利物浦裝貨、駛向美國舊金山區奧克蘭港的「海王星玉號」貨輪，因為國際碼頭工會的串聯、抵制，先後在奧克蘭、溫哥華、神戶、橫濱等地遭到驅離，竟然無處靠岸，最後在 1997 年 10 月駛往高雄港停靠，船公司就在高雄將船與貨物一起拍賣掉。