As Many As Half A Million Shipping Containers Could Be Waiting Off Ports Of LA, Long Beach

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As Many As Half A Million Shipping Containers Could Be Waiting Off Ports Of LA, Long Beach

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/10/04/shipping-containers-waiting-ports-los-angeles-long-beach/


By CBSLA Staff
October 4, 2021 at 9:06 am


LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Cargo ships continue to arrive off the coast of Southern California, and the shipping bottleneck may be why product prices are going up, even though shelves remain empty.

Officials say there could be as many as half a million shipping containers on cargo ships off the ports of LA and Long Beach, waiting to be offloaded. Frustrated truck drivers say the port needs to speed up wait times and have more docks ready to offload products, to keep up with demands.

The ports recently broke several records for the number of ships they had at shore, as well as for the number of ships waiting to dock.





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A number of factors are blamed for the bottleneck – the surge of the Delta variant throughout the world, lack of access to vaccines in some countries, a shortage of shipping containers, and another of truck drivers. Companies like Costco have been forced to charter their own container ships, but smaller companies hare having to pay higher freight charges. And most experts expect the shipping problems for months, and possibly years.......................

[Champp]

1. Aha, so that's where my Moscow Mitch bobble-head doll is hung up

I'm trying to build a collection of Republican traitor bobble heads. It will be worth Trillion$ some day, according to Q.

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2. No wonder

Shelves are empty of certain things.