Posted on 10/20/2021 1:42:51 PM PDT by MNJohnnie
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that there is “serious progress” being made in dealing with supply chain bottlenecks at two major ports in California as they moved to 24/7 operations.
“Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka said that we have already cut in half the amount of cargo that is sitting on the docks for 13 days or longer,” Psaki told reporters. “That is serious progress, and this commitment from the railroad is just the latest step toward a 24/7 supply chain, and the result of important partnerships between business, labor, and the port leadership.”
Psaki also said that Union Pacific Railroad, the second-largest railroad operator in the United States, would serve the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with 24/7 service.
“We’re going to continue to evaluate steps that need to be taken in order to move toward a 24/7 global supply chain,” Psaki said, saying the White House will continue to push to “expedite the moving of goods” across the United States.
Data from the Marine Exchange, however, shows that about 157 ships were waiting off the two ports in Southern California as of Monday. It shows that 100 ships were at anchor and 57 were at berths.
Ship report 10/18: 157 total ships inport LA/LB includes 100 at anchor or holding areas & 57 at berths. Of the 157, 97 are container ships including 70 at anchor or in holding areas & 27 at berth. 43 vessels in holding areas; 33 container ships, 3 tankers, 5 bulk, 2 general cargo pic.twitter.com/12tmrFy5yU
— Marine Exchange (@MXSOCAL) October 18, 2021
Psaki again repeated a claim from other Biden administration officials that there has been “so much traffic in a lot of these ports is because there are more goods that are being ordered by people across the country,” asserting the phenomenon is, in part, due to the economy.
Psaki also did not touch on reports of surges of panic-buying and panic-ordering by both retailers and customers, which might be driving up demand for goods.
“Suddenly retailers and manufacturers are overordering because of these supply chain issues, and that’s just leading to essentially an even worse scenario,” Jonathan Savoir, CEO of supply chain technology firm Quincus, told CNBC this week.
In recent weeks, some retailers and analysts have issued warnings to Americans that they might not be able to purchase their Christmas goods or that their items won’t arrive on time.
However, alleviating pressure on the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles is just one facet of the U.S. supply chain. Chris Spear, president and CEO of the American Trucking Associations, told CNN on Tuesday that the trucking industry is short about 80,000 drivers.
Describing the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach moving to 24/7 operations as “an improvement,” Spear warned that “it doesn’t matter if it’s a port in LA or Long Beach, or the last mile of delivery from a train to a warehouse in Wichita. You’re going to have to have a driver and a truck move that freight.”
“I think that clearly is the most impactful thing that could be done right now to alleviate this problem. So next year, [we] are not going to be having this conversation because it will alleviate itself because we’re investing,” he said.
Oh really? And what would it of been cut by under normal operations. 25%, 35%, 45%? Shameless lying again by Bugout Biden's regime by statistical manipulation and misdirection
The Democrats “follow the magic” and solve problems by waving their magic wands and _lying_.
Plan B is to blame terrorist right-wing extremists.
They’ve parked many of the cargo containers out on the street away from the ports and call it “progress”.
Bovine Scatology
More like Serial, progressive liein’.
Question is, How did Joe manage to eff up the 24/7 supply chain?
If it is just in the streets it is abandoned property. Take them and build a bug-out shelter in the sticks.
Yes, some lady was complaining that during the night they put a shipping container in front of her home and blocked her car from getting out. She couldn’t get to work.
Dems are realizing this supply chain issue could really screw them over the next election
Like England parking patients in ambulances so they could report ER waiting times where down.
“Plan B is to blame terrorist right-wing extremists.”
And Trump
Depends on what a progressive defines as “progress.”
LYING LYING LYING.
NOT ENOUGH trucks & drivers that can meet Calif smog standards...
Clueless Joe and the media will just tell us everything is fine and wash their hands of the whole mess. Just like Afghanistan.
On the streets? How long before Antifa, BLM, and the homeless get wind of this and empty out the containers themselves?
LOCAL news needs to go there & film that.
part of the blame for the huge backup in ships is due to the once-great State of Californication closing down many of the truckers’ businesses. Most of the cargo has to be carried to market by truck. Calif has ordered hundreds of large truck operators to buy new trucks that they cannot afford (especially in view of the fact that their existing equipment almost all works just fine, thank you).
So, not nearly enough trucks to haul the cargo from port to warehouses and into the supply chain to retailers and you.
Result, full docks and thus a big backlog of large cargo ships that can’t unload onto the docks.
They already blamed the unvaxxed.
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