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The busiest port in America is no longer on the West Coast
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:01 am
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:01 am
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For the past 22 years, the Port of Los Angeles has been the busiest container port in North America, moving around 10 million cargo containers filled with goods for Americans and bringing in roughly half a billion dollars in revenue each year to the state of California. But for the past three months, the Port of New York and New Jersey has been No. 1.
This rerouting of the US supply chain is a bid to get goods to consumers faster and cheaper. The vast majority of foreign-made goods, from furniture and apparel to auto parts, all come to the United States on cargo vessels that unload at US Ports.
LA isn’t happy about losing its title to its cross-country rival.
“We’ve got to get that cargo back,” said Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, in a recent press briefing.
Since August, imports into the two major West Coast ports — Los Angeles and Long Beach — have declined. Cargo volume at the Port of Los Angeles is down by 25% in the last three months compared to last year, and down by 17.3% on the five-year average. That cargo is now flowing into Gulf Coast ports like Savannah and New Orleans, and East Coast ports in New York and New Jersey.
“The record levels of cargo continue,” said Rick Cotton, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, at a press briefing last month.
“Our goal is to keep as much of that business as possible,” said a spokesperson from the Port of New York and New Jersey.
The shift stems from fears about an unresolved labor contract between the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA). Around 20,000 dockworkers at West Coast ports, including Los Angeles and Long Beach, have been working without a contract since July 1. Retailers are nervous that the lingering negotiations could lead to a strike, despite reassurances from both parties that this won’t happen. A US freight rail strike nearly sent the US economy into a supply chain spiral — raising the stakes for what a port strike could do. A dockworker strike, which both labor parties say they are adamant about avoiding, would cripple the West Coast and US supply chain — sending even more volume and pressure to other — smaller – East and Gulf Coast ports.
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Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:02 am to GumboPot
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“We’ve got to get that cargo back,” said Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles
You did it to yourself you stupid frick
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:04 am to terd ferguson
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You did it to yourself you stupid frick
Lets have stuff sit on boats for weeks because we can't get anybody willing to unload them and then cry when people stop shipping goods through us.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:05 am to terd ferguson
theres a race in Louisiana to get some of this share too. Port of Plaquemines and Port of New Orleans are in a race right now.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:05 am to H2O Tiger
weeks?
Try months
they sat so damn long they went home
these people have 0 perceptions of the problems they face and cause
Try months
they sat so damn long they went home
these people have 0 perceptions of the problems they face and cause
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:06 am to H2O Tiger
quote:thats the lie. there was plenty of people willing to work.
because we can't get anybody willing to unload them
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:07 am to GumboPot
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That cargo is now flowing into Gulf Coast ports like Savannah and New Orleans
Did Savannah relocate?
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:08 am to terd ferguson
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You did it to yourself you stupid frick
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:08 am to GumboPot
No one wants to ship to Long Beach and LA because of all the restrictions California imposed which has caused thieves to steal everything not locked down due to the delays in getting those goods out of the port and railways.
I don't see them ever getting that business back.
I don't see them ever getting that business back.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:09 am to GumboPot
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Gulf Coast ports like Savannah
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:10 am to LSUBoo
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Did Savannah relocate?
Obvious mistake or the author is geographically challenged. But the mistake is not so bad it ruins the entire article.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:11 am to GumboPot
Have they started dredging the Mississippi to accommodate the new size shipping containers ships? I know New York had to raise a bridge and have been preparing.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:14 am to MrLSU
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No one wants to ship to Long Beach and LA because of all the restrictions California imposed which has caused thieves to steal everything not locked down due to the delays in getting those goods out of the port and railways.
I wonder if shipping companies with ships coming from Asia discovered that shipping to the US east coast is just as fuel efficient as shipping to the US west coast despite being slightly shorter in travel distance due to not having to travel against the trade winds.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:14 am to GumboPot
A lack of cargo logistics software update, lack of procedural update, increase in environmental regulations on diesel trucks, increase in container decon to name a few. California gonna California.
frick em.
frick em.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:14 am to SlickRickerz
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Have they started dredging the Mississippi
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:15 am to SlickRickerz
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Have they started dredging the Mississippi to accommodate the new size shipping containers ships?
IDK. What is the requirement? 70 feet?
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:18 am to GumboPot
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I wonder if shipping companies with ships coming from Asia discovered that shipping to the US east coast is just as fuel efficient as shipping to the US west coast despite being slightly shorter in travel distance due to not having to travel against the trade winds.
Takes a hell of a lot longer to get from Asia to the East Coast due to having to go through the Panama Canal, through the Caribbean, then up the East Coast
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:18 am to GumboPot
This is very interesting. Much as I don't like California politics, the LA port is a marvel of efficiency, and NJ is not in the top five in terms of technology. Tells you just how screwed up the global supply chain is.
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:19 am to CarRamrod
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theres a race in Louisiana to get some of this share too. Port of Plaquemines and Port of New Orleans are in a race right now.
Louisiana should be a major shipping hub but instead we’re fricking retarded
Posted on 12/9/22 at 11:23 am to Richard Grayson
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Louisiana should be a major shipping hub but instead we’re fricking retarded
We are in the export side of things.
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