Posted on 10/26/2021 7:52:26 PM PDT by blueplum
Those solutions would work.
What could possibly go wrong?
I predict that before Christmas we will see a headline bemoaning this decision.
Here’s the best explanation of the shipping crisis in Los Angeles that I have seen yet - ridiculous California regulations, government incompetence, and Fed.gov leaders who don’t care
Agreed.
Dwag Brother!
I remember in the early days of the pandemic, during the panic buying stage, a Town about 40 minutes away from me had several distribution centers for the grocery industry. The excess truck traffic was backing up outside of the facility along the side of roads in town waiting for dock space to get in to Unload the trailers or pick up loaded trailers to bring to the stores.
Some of the Karen’s in the area had posted things whining about the noise of the refrigerated trailers parked on the side of the road running all night waiting for their turn disturbing their sleep And demanded the police to do something. Luckily for most people the town basically said we will not enforce these rules about idling due to the pandemic in the state of emergency so suck it up for a while until things get back to normal.
I honestly have no idea if freight railroads service said ports, but if they do, that should absolutely be the primary way to get large numbers of containers out of the ports into various less congested real yards where they can be delivered to the distribution centers via truck. This way, the truck drivers can concentrate on driving shorter distances with more runs between yard and warehouse increasing amount of goods they can move in a work week.
This all seems intentional, they’re more than willing to load a trailer chassis and offload a ship, but I have no desire to easily unload the empty containers. To me, they would have one section or crane in the port set up to unload empty containers and set them aside and then immediately send the trucks to the next crane, assembly-line style, to have a new container loaded. Repeat as necessary.
Yes, it is manufactured, but the question leads to who is in the middle. I don’t think ‘Mayor-Pete’ is smart enough to dream up this whole thing....neither is Joe Biden.
The union? The port manager? The Chinese?
Noticed how quick that oil spill episode occurred, when that waiting freighter snagged the pipeline just off the coast?
Most containers are one way rides. Costs to much to send um back empty.
That’s why no one at the ports want the.
The rail lines out of LA are already at full capacity with container freight
BTW, for four years Trump worked on bringing manufacturing home
That doesn’t make sense. Doesn’t the port need to load an empty container onto the ship for each full containers they take off the ship?
I can’t imagine those ships dead heading back to China, because China is going to need containers for the next load.
Not really. Please elaborate.
He’s calling for an EO from Biden to override the county regulations on stacking empty containers.
The President doesn’t have that authority.
Why can’t the county do that on their own?
Yeah. Let all that food spoil so they can rest better. Then they would complain there’s no food in the grocery stores.
Are you saying containers don’t normally get sent back overseas? What do they normally do with them? They are hardly disposable.
A 2019 study is useless in 2021. Radical changes have happened.
They are sold. Sometimes to be reloaded and sent back or to other countries but sometimes they end up as storage in people’s back yards. You can buy them for 1500-3000 bucks if you want one.
And they are almost all metal. Easy to recycle
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