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Nearly 80,000 shipping containers are piling up in Savannah; 500,000 off California coast
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:14 am
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:14 am
NYT
I guess making a guy Secretary of Transportation simply because he likes Choo Choo trains wasn’t a great idea after all.
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The Port of Savannah, like other ports around the US, is approaching crisis point, according to a report by The New York Times.
It has nearly 80,000 containers - 50% more than normal - stacked up, and the person that oversees the port says he's "never had the yard as full as this."
About 700 containers have been left there for a month or more, per The Times. In September, 4,500 containers sat in the port for weeks, waiting to be collected by the trucks or boats that take them to their next destination, The Times reported.
These issues have become common in ports around the world.
After falling shipping demand in the first half of 2020, a surge at the end of that year led to delays, port traffic jams, and blockages across the supply chain. A lack of shipping containers and dock workers made it worse. Now, containers are getting jammed up in ports because of both rising demand and a continuing shortage of staff to unload them and take them to their destination.
Around the world, other containers are stuck at sea on ships that are waiting to find a spot in port. Insider's Grace Kay reported earlier in October that nearly 500,000 shipping containers were stuck off the coast of Southern California.
The traffic jam in Savannah shows no signs of easing up, Griff Lynch, who oversees the port and is executive director of the Georgia Ports Authority, said.
He has had to force some ships to wait at sea for more than nine days, and recently had more than 20 ships in a queue, he said.
"The supply chain is overwhelmed and inundated ... It's not sustainable at this point," he told The Times.
The fact 4,500 containers sat for weeks in September was "bordering on ridiculous," he said.
The immediate concern for the industry is dealing with supply chain issues ahead of the busy holiday shopping season. But experts say these issues are set to continue well into next year and beyond.
"There is no indication that it will get better by 2022," Dave Marcotte, longtime retail and supply chain expert from Kantar Consulting, said in a recent conversation with Insider.
"Things are really bad ... it's like a huge rubber band that keeps getting stretched further and further," he said.
I guess making a guy Secretary of Transportation simply because he likes Choo Choo trains wasn’t a great idea after all.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:18 am to OMLandshark
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because he likes Choo Choo trains wasn’t a great idea after all
He likes trains alright.
But not those that run on tracks.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:20 am to OMLandshark
start sending them to Port of Orleans. There's some folk that will hand unload or load onto rail
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:20 am to OMLandshark
12 million metric tonnes sitting of off the California coast.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:23 am to OMLandshark
I'm going on 65 days of product sitting off the coast of Long Beach.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:25 am to OMLandshark
So what is Brandon doing to fix this problem?
Not a dad gum thing.
Trump would be having weekly meeting with all these players to fix it but he’s a POS because he’s mean and a blowhard.
Not a dad gum thing.
Trump would be having weekly meeting with all these players to fix it but he’s a POS because he’s mean and a blowhard.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:30 am to OMLandshark
Congrats to Dominion here in Cali
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:30 am to OMLandshark
Here's the other thing that people outside of the industry don't understand: If the truck is moving, it needs to be loaded, especially when the cost of fuel is so high. You need to be taking a load close to where you will get reloaded. So, if we aren't producing things and shipping them out, truckers aren't going to be in the locations to pick up these containers. Savannah doesn't have enough domestic freight coming in, to put trucks in the right location.
It's come down to the entire trade deficit frick up. shite can't be a 1 way street. That can't work for long.
It's come down to the entire trade deficit frick up. shite can't be a 1 way street. That can't work for long.
This post was edited on 10/11/21 at 12:14 pm
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:38 am to OMLandshark
This is what happens when you demonize and replace competent white men with POC and woke feminists.
Complex systems require white male brains to maintain them.
Complex systems require white male brains to maintain them.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:38 am to OMLandshark
Well he does enjoy getting backed up . These politicians being installed at every level of local , state and federal agencies are just pitiful but you know that just shows how dumb and lazy the populace is
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:39 am to Chazreinhold
This is a national emergency and it is troubling that had this happened on Trumps watch there would have been tearing of sackcloth and nightly screeching about it on the news.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:41 am to Nosevens
I saw saw today where the Port of Mobile is going to start accepting some of these ships. We have a nice port here that under utilized and central access to the entire US via rail and Interstates.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:41 am to OMLandshark
Protesting mean tweets I’m sure...
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:45 am to UAinSOUTHAL
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I saw saw today where the Port of Mobile is going to start accepting some of these ships. We have a nice port here that under utilized and central access to the entire US via rail and Interstates.
You will have the same problem in Mobile, that you have at Savannah. You will have to pay trucks to run empty to run to Mobile to pick up. That's going to cost.. a lot.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:50 am to Ham And Glass
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his is a national emergency and it is troubling that had this happened on Trumps watch there would have been tearing of sackcloth and nightly screeching about it on the news.
Oh I agree but this would not have happened on his watch, he would have been pushing hard to get things rolling.
What’s Stink Finger Joe and his incompetent band of losers worried about?
Domestic terrorism.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:51 am to OMLandshark
Joe Biden's America.
Better.
No mean tweets.
Better.
No mean tweets.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:53 am to SDVTiger
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Dominion here in Cali
Dominion had nothing to do with the recall failing by a 2:1 ratio and Brandon winning the state nearly 2:1 over Trump.
California has well passed the Point Of No Return.
This post was edited on 10/11/21 at 11:57 am
Posted on 10/11/21 at 11:57 am to Chazreinhold
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So what is Brandon doing to fix this problem?
That isn't the problem.
We have unvaxxed 4 year olds who are causing hospitals to be overloaded!!!!!!
Posted on 10/11/21 at 12:02 pm to tarzana
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California has well passed the Point Of No Return.
Yet you continue to support electing the types of fools that led California there.
Posted on 10/11/21 at 12:34 pm to OMLandshark
No worries. Biden assigned a committee to fix it back in July.
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