Yeah, that cargo was in a very controlled environment just before it pulled into port.
Posted on 10/20/2021 2:18:15 PM PDT by MNJohnnie
As California’s shipping ports congestion persists, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Oct. 20 to alleviate the crisis.
The executive order aims to find state-owned land and various other areas to temporarily store goods once they are removed from the port. It also removes weight limits on trucking freight routes to transport more goods.
“California’s ports are critical to our local, state and national economies and the state is taking action to support goods movement in the face of global disruptions,” Newsom said in a statement on Wednesday. “My administration will continue to work with federal, state, labor and industry partners on innovative solutions to tackle immediate challenges while also bringing our distribution processes into the 21st century.”
As this executive order is effective immediately, a United States Merchant Marine Academy adjunct professor questions the efficiency of the governor’s plan and its long-term impacts.
“We put off a lot of long-term improvements, and that’s why we find ourselves in this situation now,” Dr. Sal Mercogliano, told The Epoch Times. “They’re desperate to alleviate this but I don’t know if it’s going to be alleviated.”
While the state seeks to exempt weight limits for trucks to carry more items at a faster rate, Mercogliano foresees damaged roads from carrying heavy containers.
With the search for land to store goods in the short-term, finding open space in Los Angeles County becomes increasingly difficult, Mercogliano said.
Cargo that is temporarily stored on land must be in controlled environments where facilities are constantly working to move goods, according to Mercogliano.
As the executive order attempts to address the congestion by loosening restrictions, Mercogliano urged that even more must be considered.
“California needs to lessen their restrictions,” he said. “Strict controls in those ports are diminishing the number of goods that are coming in. You have terminals in LA right now that can’t bring any ships in because there’s no room to put any containers on the ground.”
The Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach is the entrance point for 40 percent of all the containers coming into the United States.
Government laws are magic!
Why should the state of California be under cutting private land owners who I am sure would lineup to lease space to host those containers until they’re shipped around where they need to go?
I thought they passed a law to make the ships sitting there illegal. Didn’t that fix it?
They just want the ports to look like they’ve fixed the problems.
Newsome is playing the shell game with very large containers.
Yup. Real and blatently obvious problems are the egregious restrictions on using older trucks, and on owner-operators.
How stupid do they think we are?
How about repealing the CARB laws and AB 5 that limits the number of trucks and operators allowed in CA?
“Why should the state of California be under cutting private land owners who I am sure would lineup to lease space to host those containers until they’re shipped around where they need to go?”
The fed gov is probly paying the state of califo for using state land....sounds about right doesn’t it?
He’d have that crap fixed in a week if he’d lift the ban on older trucks and independant drivers.
Just wait to organized crime start taking the cargo container.
bttt
If those containers were full of refugees, you can bet the Biden administration would get them unloaded and shipped out pretty fast.
yeah, that’ll help... /s
So in order to move more cargo they’re going to destroy the roads.
Got it !
Have Amazon throw up a few new warehouse in LA in three weeks. Most of the stuff goes to Amazon warehouses, anyway.
Hahaha. DeSantis speaks and they scramble. Love it.
Yeah, that cargo was in a very controlled environment just before it pulled into port.
Well, other than pirates, it looks pretty secure to me.
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