Posted on 10/28/2021 7:54:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Let’s face it.
Joe Biden is not a rocket scientist, and he has a long history of being wrong on virtually everything he touches.
But someone is going to have to help me understand his latest move that just makes absolutely no sense to me.
Biden previously said he was going to try to solve the supply chain crisis.
His first move — saying that the Port of Los Angeles was going to operate 24/7 – hasn’t been achieved yet and hasn’t seemed to do much of anything to change the situation. Indeed, after he said that, there were a record number of ships waiting to unload at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach — 100 ships.
But now, he’s saying they’re going to be fining the ships who are stuck in the logjam!
The twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach announced Monday that containers moved by trucks will have nine days before fines start accruing and containers scheduled to move by rail will have three days.
In accordance with these deadlines, carriers will be charged $100 for each lingering container per day starting Nov. 1.
“The terminals are running out of space, and this will make room for the containers sitting on those ships at anchor,” explained Port of Long Beach Executive Director Mario Cordero in a statement announcing the measure.
The Biden administration is hopeful new fines imposed on carriers will solve the logjam, CNBC notes.
The companies are stuck up a creek without a paddle, and Biden just wants to beat them up more.
Isn’t this just punishing the victims of this situation, in part created by mandates and other government restrictions as well as other things which they had no control over? How does fining them speed up this situation? They still have to do something with their cargo. What are they supposed to do with it? Throw it into the sea?
Then, on top of that, if you increase their costs which are already spiraling out of control, you will increase the costs for the companies, then for the products and then for the consumers. So, the immediate response from ships/companies would be stop shipping as much, increasing all the shortages and likely having new ones that we haven’t had yet. Exactly how is this hard to understand? Moreover, Biden is doing this right as we go into the holiday season. What a mess.
The Biden ‘solution’ to things always seems to be: do something to cover it up or hide it, not actually resolve it. He just wants to do away with the visual of the ships waiting, not figure out how to make it better.
Not getting enough Afghan allies who actually helped us evacuated? Grab random ‘at risk’ Afghans and throw them on the planes to pump up the numbers. Got thousands of illegal aliens stuck under a bridge in Del Rio? Focus on a fake story about the Border Patrol whipping them and then release them all over the country. Poof! No more problem. Except for the next group of thousands coming because the problems were not addressed.
Now, there is a truth that they seem to have stumbled upon there: that the problem is in part due to the lack of container space.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis offered Florida ports as an alternative. But Biden apparently doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge that offer.
There’s also another idea posed by Ryan Petersen, chief executive officer of logistics company Flexport. He said he took a boat around the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach last week and observed that barely anything was getting unloaded because there was such a traffic jam of containers. They can’t bring in new ones until the old ones get unloaded.
The ports of LA/Long Beach are at a standstill. In a full 3 hour loop through the port complex, passing every single terminal, we saw less than a dozen containers get unloaded.
— Ryan Petersen (@typesfast) October 22, 2021
So, what was his solution?
To help alleviate the crisis, Petersen suggested the creation of a temporary container yard at an adjacent government-owned location and the deployment of National Guard- and military-owned container chassis to the port for 180 days. He also called on President Joe Biden and California Governor Gavin Newsom to issue executive orders overriding zoning rules to allow truck yards to store more empty containers.
Petersen went on to compare the current supply-chain crisis and the possibility of ports shutting down to the 2008 crash of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. that led to the Great Recession.
“With Lehman the government could just print tons of money to flood the banks with liquidity,” Petersen said. “Here we need real world solutions.”
Unfortunately, we have Joe Biden who’s not good at real world solutions. #EmptyShelvesJoe is about to make it worse.
The ways to get things going again are: 1, remove all government mandates, regulations, tariffs, and taxes; and 2, remove all government protection of unions.
The recovery would be measured in days.
I thought the same thing this week after a stream of unbelievable headlines. For example, being sued by illegals and wanting to settle for each to the tune of $450,000. Like what are they going to do, leave? Why should they have any standing or rights of any kind. You can bet your sweet bippy it you were in mesico or anywhere else you would not get the time of day if you broke into the country and tried to sue the giverment.
Yeah, the Babylon Bee is going to have to come up with some whoppers to top reality these days with plugs and his gang of saboteurs and fools running things.
Are you serious?
You don’t think sitting there for days on end. paying the charter rate for the ship every day and not knowing how long you are going to be stuck isn’t incentive enough to make other plans?
Professor of what?
You don't think sitting there for days on end. paying the charter rate for the ship every day and not knowing how long you are going to be stuck isn't incentive enough?
I'm not into ocean-based logistics, but I believe (from reports) that there is more to shifting ports of call than just fuel, food, and time. As I recall the story, there is a huge amount of work dealing with US Customs, overland logistics (trucks and rail), and the PAPERWORK. So no, I don't think that the points you mention are incentive enough. I remember all the work I had to do to get electronic equipment into England and back.
Read my post again. The daily fines + normal expenses are plenty of motivation to switch ports.
Professor of Computer Science & Engineering.
Give it to joe. He found a way to make the situation even worse! Although ultimately it would get better because no one will ship anything to us
Indeed, the writer or his editor are confused. They report that each day a small fraction of containers are moved off the docks to waiting ????? (that they don't say trucks might be to evade naming the cause-Newsom’s greenies).
Also, the well paid dockworkers unions are slowing down. Why?
Ersatz Joe (Obama/Jarrett) are smashing the last vestige of free market Capitalism. Within 3 years, all of us will be equally suffering in a centrally planned economy. I believe these homeless or illegal aliens will be forcibly housed in our homes, just like the communists in Russia took over private homes...in the name of the collective good.
carriers will be charged $100 for each lingering container per day starting Nov. 1.
Typical carrier has 20,000 equivalent 20 ft containers....so $400,0000 a day is some serious money.
Nice going Brandon..
Mayor Pete must be suffering from milk fever.
Isn’t “Red State” one of the never-Trump groups?
They are responsible for this nightmare.
Perhaps taxing the homeless is next?
F Joe wants the optics of clogged ports to disappear like Haitians under the bridge. He thinks threats of fines will make the ships leave and people will think the supply chain problem solved. It’s all about controlling the news cycle.
Joe couldn’t solve his own FAMILY problems.
WHY would any thinking person think he could solve ours?
He is a LOSER, and he has ALWAYS been a loser and without the help of Zuck bribing stupid people who could manipulate the election, greedy Lefties, stupid Lefties and DOMINION, HE NEVER WOULD HAVE “WON” THIS ELECTION.
WE ELECTED THE VILLAGE IDIOT TO BE OUR PRESIDENT AND THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD??????????
I. THINK. NOT.
Clueless Joe’s intentions are not to solve the problem but to make it worse but, to be fair, Joe is not running the show. He’s just a sock puppet who’s being directed by his evil handlers, whoever they are. Hence, my tag line.
In addition to fining the ships the port will also fine the truck drivers who wait too long to pick up their loads, even though the trucks are at the port, but have not been called to get their loads.
What’s worse than a hot mess? There must be something.
through the Panama Canal and docking in Florida
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Trouble is that a considerable number of container ship are too large or the port too shallow to take them. I don’t know if FL can handle those ships which might have to join the long lines at the Ports of NY and NJ. Not to mention the mountains of paperwork such a switch would entail.
Not a peep from pResident Dementia about the UNION Longshoreman’s performance. That is where according to a story posted in the last couple of days much of the issue resides per the Truckers.
“Mayor Pete must be suffering from milk fever”
His man boobs must be sore from all the pumping.
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