Intown Atlanta used to park cargo, relieve Savannah port congestion
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Early in the fall, more than 30 ships were queued up in the harbor waiting to unload. That line was down to six ships at the end of last week.
Port officials also are hiring more workers and are running the terminal around-the-clock in Savannah. Steady improvement has been made, Lynch said.
The backups were even worse on shore, where nearly 90,000 containers were stacked in anticipation of rail or truck transport. That has been cut by nearly one-third, Lynch said.
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Sounds like the kind of thing that could snowball and empty the CA ports.
River barge companies are booming right about now.
The laws of unintended consequences strike California yet again. How are those new Diesel truck restrictions working for you, Libtards?
You know, the lies that the left has told have been that there was a trucker shortage, or that the train cargo terminals were all backed up, or that there was a shortage of the trailers that they mount the containers on. If ANY of those lies were true, going to another port wouldn’t help. But strangely, when containers are shipped to some place outside of Commiefornia, those things don’t seem to be happening.
Amazing, isn’t it?
A major reason for this is the opening of the new, wider set of locks on the Panama Canal some years ago, which allows up to 13,000 TEU of container cargo to be carried per ship compared to the 5,000 TEU of the ships compatible with the original locks. This means a lot less need to unload the containers and ship them across the USA on doublestack container unit trains.