A Mexican tourist resort town known for hosting cruise ships is welcoming a flood of cargo ships since West Coast port workers went on strike. The town of Ensenada, 100 miles south of San Diego on the Baja California Peninsula, is serving cargo ships marooned off the western United States.

More than 10,000 U.S.-bound containers reportedly have been unloaded at Ensenada and seven other Mexican ports since Sept. 27, when a dispute between shipping lines and dock workers led to a shutdown of all major western U.S. ports.

Mexico's ports lack the infrastructure to handle more than a fraction of the cargo left floating on about 200 ships stuck off the U.S. coast. The port of Vancouver, Canada, also is too busy to accept ships that don't regularly dock there.

Some shipping lines are resorting to the Panama Canal, to reach ports in the Gulf of Mexico or on the East Coast.

The Ensenada terminal has just one cargo berth and two cranes. The terminal handles just 34,000 containers a year, compared to about 10 million in Los Angeles and Long Beach, CA.

Ensenada usually handles two container ships a week. Last week, it received eight, and more are lining up daily.