Posted on 10/13/2021 7:34:22 PM PDT by simpson96
President Joe Biden touted new commitments from businesses and ports Wednesday as his administration rushes to ease supply chain backlogs in time to ease the burden on Christmas shoppers and avoid being cast as a Scrooge.
'With the holidays coming up, you might be wondering if gifts you plan to buy will arrive on time?' Biden said, acknowledging the crush of commercial and online orders at risk of disruption as the holiday season approaches.
'I know you’re hearing a lot about something called supply chains and how hard it is to get a range of things from a toaster to sneakers to bicycles to bedroom furniture.'(snip)
Biden reached a deal on Wednesday with unions and business leaders from Walmart, FedEx, UPS and others to expand operations at one of the country's largest shipping ports in a bid to ease supply chain bottlenecks that are driving up consumer prices and emptying store shelves.
Once implemented the proposed changes could increase output by more than 3,500 shipping containers per week, White House officials said.
'Traditionally, our ports have only been open during the week, Monday through Friday. And they're generally closed down at nights and on weekends. By staying open seven days a week through the night and on the weekends, the port of Los Angeles will open over 60 extra hours a week,' he continued. 'That will almost double the number of hours that the port is open for business than earlier this year.'
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Once they off load the containers then they have to be trucked somewhere. The business’s the goods are going to are not open 24/7 so what to do with a truck load of stuff going to many stops?
” IBM Selectric”
Modern fru fru techie stuff, bah.
Let me grab my Royal...
Sorry to continue my unconstructive derision but, what do they understand besides mayhem? Or that it is intentional?
Can anyone who goes so far be so stupid or do they see themselves that smugly superior to all others? This is Obama, Jarrett, perousi et al. Plugs is the stupid radical he has always been. They can get him to say anything. What obammy said, “Never underestimate Joe’s ability to fluck up.” He is just a place holder as we know but to whom has been the only real question. Imagine the angst and comedy that takes place when plugs goes off script, if it is still plugs we see and hear.
They actually believe we believe their line of bull but no matter that we think them stupid. With the help of the press and our ridicule they get away with it all.
If you can work construction, a drilling rig, a supply vessel or cut wheat and farm at night working a port is just another dangerous job to do. Some of us have done one or all of these.
They are paid well with lots of benefits. If they don’t care about safety or take care of their own well, look in the mirror for who to blame.
Bingo, winner, winner chicken dinner . Johnny give that man his prize for correct identification of the root cause of this calamity.
Dementia Joe unwittingly (redundant, I know) set himself up for another failure. First, freight hauling is a 24/7/365 operation. Second, 3500 extra cans is barely an eighth increase of one container ship. Third, the problem in California is AB5, the banning of non union drivers from carrying loads out. Finally, freight velocity is so far behind what’s needed to clear the backlog by December 25th even with a paltry 3500 container increase.
Things will improve fast when they switch over to all electric trucks.
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