The basic problem on the west coast is government. My son works the ports as a contractor moving goods for the Port of Tacoma.
In California, they have ships fully loaded with goods and are forced to anchor outside the ports because of unloading problems. The ships stretch from Long Beach to just south of San Francisco, the entire coast.
The state, Newsome, has forced a total sanitizing of areas and equipment at each shift change which takes hours to accomplish and has thus extended the unloading wait at each change. They currently have so many ships on the coast they can’t even anchor them. Anchoring these container ships requires around 250 feet of water. Every possible location is filled and they are free floating hundreds of ships starting at Dana Point where the drop off starts to deeper water.
So the product is there. But Newsome has established such a ridiculous over reacted standard for the ports they can’t do that and off load the ships suitably so they back up.
There’s product out there. It just is being held up at the ports for political reasons. And now they have such a backup problem in time the goods will stop coming with no place to go and the manufacturers and logistic people will take it elsewhere and less of it. And as the expense is getting astronomical, it will be passed on to the consumer. This will put people under the thumb of government and produce more tax money and unemployment. Another covid first?
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Thank you for the “feet on the ground” report from your son!
How about the port of New Orleans? There’s other ports.
Wow - a reasonable answer on FR. Thank you.
And like good little sheeple they just follow right along.
No love for Newsom here, but the Chicoms will refuse to unload if one crew member tests positive at their ports.
Wow. Interesting post. It’s a damn shame the commies control the entire west coast: CA, OR and WA. How great life would be if those three were Red States.