Posted on 08/31/2021 9:17:17 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A record number of container ships are stuck waiting to enter California’s two largest ports as labor shortages and COVID-19 disruptions continue to roil a supply chain that’s being pushed to its limits ahead of the busy holiday shopping season.
A total of 46 freight ships are at anchor or in a drift area waiting to enter the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the Marine Exchange of Southern California, which operates the Vessel Traffic Service for those two ports, reported late Monday evening.
“Trend at anchor and in drift areas is essentially steady next 3 days,” the group said in a statement. “Through it all, port partners are keeping your Marine Transportation System safe, secure, reliable, and environmentally sound, despite not being efficient at this time due to the backup.”
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After taxes that's what, about 9 bucks an hour? People have been making those same wages going back decades.
If employers want employees, pay more. It's not complex.
You’re right.
I had a CDL-1 back when I had my large nursery, garden ctr & lscp contracting operation, since I had to drive 10-20T dumptrucks, and was offered employment by several trucklines, here in York.
So, I figured you’d reply along those lines. COSCO may in fact “control” the Port of LA. I don’t have sufficient knowledge to know one way or the other, but they do not own it.
Truck haulers is the rate limiting factor in all this - trucks. Wonder where they all are?
Nothing like government regulators here to help us all.
Interesting. Thanks for the insight.
China is a cancer. It’ll hurt, but we need to cut it out.
They may not own Joe Xiden either, but they definitely control him.
What if...
Some country’s attack sub would have a banner day?
Clog the harbor, and there would be all kinds of pollution and calamity.
I think I see a novel in the future.
5.56mm
Can you explain why this is Biden’s fault?
Could it be that the ships arriving are now carrying significantly more cargo?
Could it be that there is a shortage of qualified cargo handlers and/or there are bottlenecks getting the containers processed through the system because shippers don’t want to pay for additional fees to get them to other ports?
I hate Biden…but this has been going on since the Chinese ports reopened late last year.
My daughter lived there for a year. I asked her about it. She told me she never heard it. And the only people who talked about were tourists. So….
I love that area…but it is full of some weird tweakers. Everything that is not chained down…gets stolen.
Probably none. Ammunition from China has been banned since the 90’s.
My future son-in-law is a logistics manager. Next time I get together with him, I’ll have some questions for him.
As for myself, I ordered an eyepiece for my telescope from an American online store. It is a product of a company in Germany, made for them by an optical manufacturer in , you guessed it, China. I ordered it in March, and the latest estimate as to it being delivered is “late summer “.☹️
Some day they are going to look back and realize that.
Air freight rates must be skyrocketing with demand for anything that can be shipped by air, which is a simple matter of price to volume/weight.
Kinda reminds me of the oil shortages in the 70’s. Story is we had the oil. We just had to wait in line at the gas stations.That's what happens when wholesale prices rise above retail because of price controls. Fails every time.
The guy seemed to realize that he screwed the pooch with what China did to the world, but it seemed oh so logical at the time.
Yeah riiiiight. Labor shortages LOL
$13/hr is shiiiit wages.
Wages are not a big cost driver.
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