Posted on 10/21/2021 12:58:14 PM PDT by DFG
A Florida port authority is inviting steamships waiting to dock in California to divert via the Panama Canal to the sunshine state, where there are no backlogs.
The Jacksonville Port Authority said it’s the solution to an unprecedented logjam at The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, where weeks-long queues are slowing commerce ahead of the year’s busiest shopping season.
It’s a sharp contrast from the scene in Jacksonville, which officials said has maintained terminal fluidity – and set a new container volume record - despite market disruptions.
Florida ports council president Michael Rubin said they can expedite cargo ship movement by rerouting container ships via the Panama Canal, a seven-day journey from Southern California to Northern Florida.
‘We have the opportunity to provide those shipping lines and beneficial cargo owners a more efficient route that can get their product not only to the third-largest domestic market in the country but also to other markets outside of Florida, within two days,’ Rubin told ABC Action News.
‘We realize how important it is to get those goods to market, to not be the grinch that stole Christmas.’
The Jacksonville port set a new container volume record in May, when it moved nearly 129,000 twenty-foot equivalent units through its terminals.
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“I told them long ago to dig a canal across the Mexican border. ... No one ever listens to me though.”
I’m listening. It’s a wonderful idea!! Send it on to Bongino, Bannon, MTG, or anyone else who has a big audience and is committed to action.
Some folks can't get a grip on language.
We can change extra for that cargo, or maybe confiscate it.
The bottle neck is being cause by Newsom and California libs who have passed legislation that regulates the truckers out of business if they operate in the state. Their older trucks are deemed environmentally illegal in the state and their independent operator status is deemed illegal in the state. There are operators with tractors that can’t enter California so they wait just outside the border to pick up trailers that are delivered to them by those still able to operate within the stupid state laws. It’s all completely insane, but this is the Communist Democratic Party of today.
Just think, most of that stuff will end up in a land fill some day.
Sooner than later, given the quality.
Are you kidding me? d’rats have spent years in
destroying Christmas doing all they possibly
could to remove RELIGION from the town square and
sacred halls of DC. OTOH, their greed would
never allow them the opportunity to miss the
abundance of Christmas Sales (Capitalism)
increasing the Federal Reserve notes being
horded in their strongboxes.
As to Florida, what would this extra cost for shipping entail? How much would the
products be increased over and above the
already added cost of inflation, taxes, fuel,
locks, etc.?
DeSantis must be sitting pretty these days. The man is on the ball with everything,
seemingly, under control. Unlike that sleaze ball
governor of California.
Over the last several years the Jacksonville Port Authority has spent millions dredging the St John’s River to depth capable of handling the largest of container ships, the idea is to also allow a nuclear powered aircraft carrier, the John F Kennedy was based here at one time
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