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Wondering where your stuff from overseas is? Shipaggedon!
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And it keeps getting worse.
40 ships at anchor off LA/LGB. That’s a new record. The crap is now rolling to Oakland. 10 ships at anchor there.
Ocean carriers are cancelling sailings because they don’t have ships to put into the gap caused by the delays. Usually China shuts down for two weeks at Chinese New Year. This year, the medical and consumer goods manufacturers are going to keep working.
This will probably continue until well into the spring.
40 ships at anchor off LA/LGB. That’s a new record. The crap is now rolling to Oakland. 10 ships at anchor there.
Ocean carriers are cancelling sailings because they don’t have ships to put into the gap caused by the delays. Usually China shuts down for two weeks at Chinese New Year. This year, the medical and consumer goods manufacturers are going to keep working.
This will probably continue until well into the spring.
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The video in this article from the CG shows how bad the jam off LA/LGB is.
New video shows massive scope of California box-ship traffic jam
New video shows massive scope of California box-ship traffic jam
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It seems that the situation in not improving. A lot of worried sailors on these ships.
Have the people at the receiving end at the port done anything to improve the situation? If the cause is just more stuff being shipped, then it seems to me like the situation won't improve unless something significant changes at existing ports and/or new ports are opened. Although I seem to have no problems getting things sent directly to me from overseas, I've encountered problems buying things that should be available in US retail stores. I'm thinking if something is sent to me directly it comes in via plane or a port on the east coast. The situation is definitely hurting retailers (best buy, crap mart, target, etc). Maybe some of those need to further diversify and open a few new ports.
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Suggest you read this article. Really good one that explains a lot of the many different moving parts.
‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’: Chaos Strikes Global Shipping
There were up to 800 LA dockworkers out due to covid (either had it or had to quarantine). That’s part of it. Also, there is a ton more stuff being shipped. You say “open new ports” like it’s nothing. It’s a multiple year project. You also have to consider road and railroad infrastructure to match.
IME almost all the consumer purchases from overseas come through airmail, so the port situation would only indirectly affect those packages.
But even that was backed up, early on during the pandemic it was taking 3 months to go Europe to the US via airmail (saver). Due to the lack of passenger volume, airlines stopped flying, and most trans-Oceanic mail crosses in the hold of an airplane (that is why they are such a pain about bags). It was so bad that the Japan Post stopped shipping to a number of countries, and at least twice the USPS took their backlog of trans-Atlantic packages and put them on a container ship to get them to Europe.
I haven't looked into trans-Atlantic shipping but trans-Pacific seems to have gotten the back log under control.
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Another new article. The backup just isn’t at LA/LGB.
America’s container-shipping gridlock: California vs. Georgia
America’s container-shipping gridlock: California vs. Georgia
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