What is causing the backlog of container ships off California?

10/18/21

[logi_cal869]

Here ya go

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/14/the-california-version-of-the-green-new-deal-and-an-october-16-2020-epa-settlement-with-transportation-is-whats-creating-the-container-shipping-backlog-working-ca-ports-24-7-will-not-help-here/

[kvanbrunt2]

Look at the port of LA website. All you need to know. Ports r run by the cities.

[catnipman]

“What is causing the backlog of container ships off California?”

a shortage of dog sled teams to take over for the lack of “green” trucks and vaccinated corporate truck drivers approved by the government of California ...

[lightman]

Longshoreman/Dockworkers union?

Maybe the unionistas realize that these containers are full of Chinese junk that has stolen American factory jobs, flooded our land with inferior and possibly infected products, and reduced a once great nation to a vassal state.

So why should they pick up the pace to aid and abet our economic enemy?

[Golden Eagle]

My friend who is a high level transport scheduler says it’s almost purely a shortage of drivers, a crisis he says won’t be fixed quickly even thought the wages being offered to drivers right now are soaring. There’s just not enough new blood in the pipeline to match those that are saying to hell with it for whatever reason.

[G Larry]

But Pete has neither the ability nor authority to fix the things Biden wants broken.
(yes, I know I omitted a ‘t’)

[Golden Eagle]

California is obviously a big part of it as most Chinese shipments land there, but many ports on the east coast are backlogged now too.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/10/11/report-80000-shipping-containers-stuck-at-savannah-port/

[Jane Long]

There’s just not enough new blood in the pipeline to match those that are saying to hell with it for whatever reason.....

Hmmmm.....where'd they go?

Karl Denninger has a guess, about that.

Where is the missing workforce?

[GOP Poet]

I’ve wondered the same.

[stockpirate]

One of the problems is CA passed a law last year that ended contract employees. Most truckers from out of state are contract workers. So thousands of long haul truckers are unable to pickup freight at the CA docks to haul cross country.

So not enough trucks to haul the freight out.

It’s really that simple

[Big Red Badger]

Uh,
We are getting hit with
So many Right Cross punches,
We’ll be Begging for a Left
Very soon.

[telescope115]

BINGO. ANYTHING made in the USA isn’t on a container ship!

[telescope115]

I can see that being part of the problem.
I know I blew my last stimulus check on stuff made in China.
I recently bought myself a new wedding band,tungsten carbide- guess what?
THAT’S made in China, too! Sickening…..

[Tell It Right]

"One of the things no one talks about much is that the newer cargo ships—some launched recently—carry about 25-30% more cargo."

True that. And true to California's environmental regulations making it so that only the big boy crony trucking companies can haul cargo (with expensive newer trucks).

And don't forget almost all businesses spending the past decade or two shifting to Just In Time (JIT) inventory models. Basically, companies have been operating with bare bones inventory with little margin for error before the plandemic + workers being paid to avoid work + California's trucking rules + generational changes of baby boomers retiring and Generation X getting too old for too much heavy labor work + even if Generation Z/millennials didn't have less of a work ethic than prior generations there's still less Gen Z workers to go around anyway compared to prior generations even though there are way more consumers today.

[Herakles]

Pass the popcorn, its Brandon’s fault!

[Big Red Badger]

Thanks for that link!
.
Rings true I know of guys,
Just Walked out or
Fade from Clot Shot
Not having covid.
.
We’ve been Had!

[Golden Eagle]

Thanks for the link. People dying from Covid, or refusing to work if they must be injected with some potentially dangerous substance just to possibly prevent it, certainly aren’t helping the labor figures across the board. Truck drivers however have been under a lot of specific pressure over last several years due to new regulations that effect their equipment, and their driving habits.

My friend says a some of them are just driving less, but still making the same amount of money they need to meet their bills, as their wages are going up a lot right now. Looks like it’s going to last a while, some financial analysts on TV are already projecting the issue will ripple to Christmas 2022 which is pretty crazy. Stock up is on things while you can is my suggestion, which I’m sure you’re already doing as well.

[aimhigh]

Ships coming to Portland to avoid long delays at California ports
https://www.kgw.com/article/money/california-port-shipping-delays-portland/283-09a9afaa-7516-455b-bc91-c7599ca670e4

[Jane Long]

👍🏼

[MrLucky1966]

A) environmental California trucking regulations from the California Air Resources Board which mandates all trucks must be 2011 or newer

Is that for both interstate and intrastate or just intrastate? If it is for interstate too, that should be against the commerce clause. Here in Ohio, I see lots of older trucks, I've even seen the old "needle nose" Peterbuilts from 1955 to 1960 (like the old truck in the movie "Duel") still hauling trailers. I've seen many 1970's trucks too. Somebody needs to sit on California and tell them where to get off.

Not sure how to handle the trucking crises except the above but to unload the ships, use prisoners who volunteer from San Quentin, Folsom, Chino, etc. where in exchange they get some pay, more privileges and/or reduced sentences.