Posted on 12/04/2021 3:15:10 PM PST by blam
President Biden told Americans that the supply chain is in “very strong shape” ahead of Christmas. Speaking from the White House Wednesday, Biden said his administration has partnered with the private sector to “ensure the store shelves are stocked.” But new shipping data shows snarled supply chains are worsening, and it could take months to untangle them.
New shipping data from the busiest U.S. port complex, Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, shows 96 container ships idled offshore, waiting to unload cargo.
FreightWaves’ Greg Miller described a new queuing system for vessels as pure optics, which reduces the number of ships offshore of Los Angeles/Long Beach. He said ships are being placed in holding patterns further out into the ocean where they’re out of sight and out of mind — to prevent attention-grabbing aerial imagery of container ship logjams.
The new queuing system has divided vessels into a couple of categories: 40 ships anchored within 40 miles of the ports and 56 outside that perimeter. With the line continuing to get longer at the U.S.’ largest containerized ports, the Biden miracle to save Christmas appears to be failing.
What’s also worsening are wait times. It now takes 21 days, or three weeks, for a vessel to enter the twin ports, that’s up from seven in August.
Biden’s effort to reduce dwell times is not working, even after he announced a new directive for the twin ports in mid-October to operate on a 24/7 basis. We noted at the time, in a piece titled “Here’s The Truth Behind Biden’s 24/7 Port Operations Pledge,” that the move would not save Christmas.
There’s even more confirmation that disputes the president’s claim supply chains are easing. FreightWaves’ Clarissa Hawes said, “we are drowning on the landside by long lines and staffing issues at the terminals.” She said a flawed appointment system and other efficiency issues for drayage truckers continue to plague the twin ports.
Biden’s attempt to save Christmas appears to be failing. There’s still time to call in the National Guard. At least now the administration can blame the new Omicron COVID-19 variant on why some store shelves are still bare.
They put Buttigieg in Transportation so he could disburse billions of dollars in discretionary funding to the states on projects HE would approve, buying favors in the process pursuant to 2024.
They are protecting him.
This needs to hang like a noose around Buttigieg’s neck, not Biden’s stick supporting the empty head.
Biden will be starring in a new movie soon - “The Geriatric Who Stole Christmas”.
Why not. He plagiarizes everything else......
President Potter don’t care
I picture him more as one of the Rankin/Bass claymation anti-Christmas villains. You know... Burgermeister Meisterburger, Snow Miser, one of those sort. He sort of moves like something done with claymation already.
Maybe the crew at FreedomToons will oblige us, before Christmas.
Keep failing Joey!
Keep on rubbing the DNC’s nose in your ineptitude!
“If anyone is looking for Christmas in a chinese shipping container, they’re looking in the wrong place.”
Bravo!!! ☄
Is this what’s in your Cowboy Candy? Jalapenos, cider vinegar, sugar, tumeric, celery and mustard seed, garlic, and cayenne.
A chandler service operator, drug dealer, and pimp are standing on a Long Beach pier looking at the build up of shipping through out the anchorage.
There’s some serious side action going on in that port!
Make your own gifts.
When I was a kid Christmas mornings were always lean. Oranges, a bag of nuts to crack, underwear, socks... the usual 60s stuff. Spoolie’s, a family board game.
One year I got a geologists hammer!
We were sooooo neglected back in the 60’s🙄
Claymation..... perfect! :)
Yep. Today’s Christmas is made in China.
Maybe we need to be like 1989 Romania.
Amen Sister!
Sung to “If I Only Had a Brain’ (The Wizard of Oz):
Oh, my name is Joseph Biden,
I’m in my basement hidin’ -
Permit me to explain ...
I’d be speaking with coherence,
When I’m making an appearance,
If I only had a brain!
Oh, I never was elected,
A president selected -
The ballot harvest game...
And though I’m always fibbin,’
I could raise your standard livin,’
If I only had a brain!
Oh, I - can’t tell you why - there are no goods in the stores ...
I consulted AOC - it’s her philosophy - and if you ask, you’ll get no more!
So, don’t bother with complainin,’
I need not be explainin’-
Why I can’t “feel your pain” ...
I’m too busy COVID killin,’
And I’ll rack up thirty trillion,
‘Cause I never had a brain!
Brilliant! :-D
BTTT!!!
I need a part for my microwave.
It’s made by a Japanese firm at a plant in Thailand.
I can’t get one because the ship can’t get unloaded for another three weeks.
Having “too much stuff” is not a problem that this sort of supply chain logistical nightmare will cure.
This is a hurtful problem keeping real people from getting vital parts they need
to carry on their livelihoods.
You gonna look at the farmer with a crop in the field and a broken tractor waiting on a critical part from an overseas foundry and blithely dismiss the whole debacle as a nothingburger because of how much stuff we all have?
Ma’am, that dog won’t hunt.
B-but Pete Buttigieg put his husband’s nephew on the task. What could possibly have gone wrong?
Kamala as Dorothy
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There’s the power that I dreamed of
Either obey or die!
Oh, ruling over working slobs
Who always want good-paying jobs
That’s where I’ll bind them...
With borders opened up so wide
And looters free to play inside
My lack of talent brings me
I’ll cackle at the desolation
Of what was once a mighty nation
While farmers till their dying crops
And gangstas mock de-funded cops
But at least global warming stops
For another dozen years again
Somewhere over that rainbow
I will fly
Birds all die chopped by windmills
While I rule from on high
Biden try’s to save Christmas, funny
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