The Port of Los Angeles’ sales pitch to importers in recent months has been: We have plenty of capacity now. No more ship queues. The port labor contract expired July 1, 2022, but there has been no major disruption to imports during negotiations on the new contract. No need to ship your goods all the way through the Panama Canal to the East or Gulf coasts. Come back to LA!
That sales pitch, to the extent it ever worked, died on Friday. …
One [exporter of agricultural goods] had 10 trucks turned away from the Port of Long Beach on Thursday night, with containers of goods having to be stored at a yard near the port. This exporter incurred an added cost of $20,000, leading to a substantial loss on the international sale.
There’s one guy on FR that actually DEFENDS UNIONS, by playing down the harm they do (since they are a relatively small portion of the workforce). Of course he denies he’s defending them, but I doubt he is as dumb as he wants us to believe.
If the freight ships are not scheduling their posts of call into OR and WA, they deserve what they get meaning sitting off-shore for weeks / months waiting to unload. That’s losing money by the minute. Of course after these ships dock they still have to wait on CA-approved trucks to move their containers of which there are not enough.
Once again CA leads the USA in stupidity with an uncanny ability to create a cluster-phuck from any opportunity. Of course this ability is demonstrated in most demorat majority enclaves including WDC.
According to their own website the job of the port is to keep the water clean. Not move stuff.
Port of Los Angeles China has idea for another port to buy.
The only alternative is Mexico. Oregon and Washington are just as communistic. If I were AMLO I would be spending a huge amount of money upgrading Ensenada.