Some American consumers started panic buying products like toilet paper as dockworkers on Thursday entered their third day of a strike, the International Longshoremen's Association's first since 1977.

With a tentative contract reached between long shoremen and an alliance of port operators, cargo operations at New Jersey and New York’s port will resume Saturday and are expect to be caught up by the end of next week,

People are stocking up on toilet paper following news of port strikes that began Oct. 1 from Maine to Texas, but there's no need to panic buy or to stock up on your Cottonelle. Here's what to know about the port strikes and what goods are affected: Thirty-six East Coast and Gulf Coast ports shut down as 45,