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<p>By WSBTV.com News Staff April 15, 2022 at 10:49 am EDT ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a state of emergency in reaction to ongoing supply chain disruptions. The order goes into effect Saturday.</p><p>The order prohibits price gouging of goods and services, including gasoline.</p>

Some of the problems with our supply chain stem from the backlog at the ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach. Staffing issues, environmental regulations, and, well, California just being California, have made the situation worse. Thankfully, not all supply chain traffic travels through California. Ports in the Southeastern U.S. have worked hard to help relieve the supply chain crisis. The Port of Savannah on the Georgia coast is one example. January marked the 18th consecutive record month for the port. ... Shippers have begun to see Savannah and other ports in the Southeast as alternatives to the mess that...

Global supply chain problems have threatened to dim a holiday light display that is a community favorite. Pat Farley starts shopping for Christmas decorations early for his front yard holiday attraction, Farley Christmas Wonderland. Advertisement "Christmas. Like this past Christmas Day, I ordered a bunch of trees and some of them I got and then some of them I haven't seen, and I'm not going to see them this year,” said Farley. He placed orders for Christmas trees in December 2020, some haven't shown up yet. He ordered other decorations in January 2021 but says it took until November 2021...

The logjam at California's ports for ships to wait is now as long as 17 days - a new record amid the continuing supply chain crisis just weeks before Black Friday and the holidays usually turn spending into overdrive.. There were as many as 83 ships at anchor and in a holding pattern outside ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach as of Friday night, officials said. The nearly 17-day wait is double the wait time from just two months ago.

When people are buying products, that creates more competition and prices become LOWER as sellers try to offer a better price than their competitors...at least that's what my twelve-year-old daughter said to me. Breathtaking that a "President" can't figure that out.

A California longshoreman, who works at California’s San Pedro Bay Port Complex, reportedly said the labor unions are exascerbating the supply chain crisis. Identified as Alfred to Yahoo News, the longshoreman blamed Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) for “cutting the work” at the port, which is increasing the jam of containers stuck at sea and on the docks. “They’re [PMA] the ones who are not training: skilled positions. [That] means crane operators, top handler drivers, trans drivers,” said Alfred. “They’re the ones who are keeping the ships out there at sea anchored.” Despite the delays and mounting shipping costs American families...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Southern California's Los Angeles and Long Beach ports handle the most ocean cargo of any ports in the United States, but are some of the least efficient in the world, according to a ranking by the World Bank and IHS Markit. In a review of 351 container ports around the globe, Los Angeles was ranked 328, behind Tanzania's Dar es Salaam and Alaska's Dutch Harbor. The adjacent port of Long Beach came in even lower, at 333, behind Turkey's Nemrut Bay and Kenya's Mombasa, the groups said in their inaugural Container Port Performance Index published in...