Where in All the Oceans is our Sea Freight?

Illinois Review ^ | December 3, AD 2021 | John F Di Leo

[kvanbrunt2]

Well according to the website of the LA port, it’s job is to keep the water clean. and the cities on the west coast are run by commies who run the ports.

[Renfrew]

The main issue is our ports are old. We need new ones, but the cost of building infrastructure is too high.

A single modern port, like Singapore, can handle 36 million containers a year. That is more than every port in the USA combined can handle.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Thank yo for those uplifting comments Slo Joe ! FJB.

[cuz1961]

banned from the port by environmentalist wacko state legislators.

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Are they really whacko or enviromentalists ?

Or do they have a financial interest. ?

, say stock investments or lobby or campaign money ?

I think we all know the answer.

[Keyhopper]

Question: before income tax didn’t we run the government using tariffs?

[central_va]

Question: before income tax didn’t we run the government using tariffs?

Yes.

[Grzegorz 246]

“Seattle, Tacoma, Los Angeles, New York, Norfolk, Charleston, all our seaports have seen increases of twenty to forty percent over what they were accustomed to handling”

Is that confirmed by the raw data ? I've checked port of LA statistics and they had huge Y/Y growths in the first half of 2021 but that's simply because it's growth vs. the first effects of initial covid panic. The figures for recent months are flat.

[jfd1776]

Yes, this is real. Most ports are up about 20% over their pre-covid averages in total throughput. LA/LB is worse, as high as 40%.

It’s hard to tell from raw numbers because containers move both in and out. Some ports, like LA, have had unusually fewer outbound shipments of empties at times, because of the need to rush ships back to Asia to pick up the next lot. The idea of rushing empty is insane, but necessitated by this current mess.

Both our ports and our railyards desperately need huge expansion.