The supply shortage continues

A record 147 ships is waiting off the cost of Los Angeles waiting to unload.
95 of those ships are the container type so the rest must be bulk carriers like coal, grain and chemicals.

"Massive supply chain disruptions are being felt across the United States as imports resume from pandemic lows — and as the country’s busiest ports, at Los Angeles and Long Beach, are unable to handle the volume of container ships, many of which await offshore."

No trucks
No trains
No dock workers

www.breitbart.com...

Many of my customers are reporting crazy long waits for supplies.
Oddly enough, there is a huge backlog in steel and plastic orders right now which seems to be more related to labor than supply.

Get your Christmas shopping done early this year folks.

a reply to: Bluntone22

One of the major reasons is nowhere to put the inbound containers with the empties sitting at the ports.

a reply to: Bluntone22

Or...and hear me out on this...
Maybe people should wise up?

Maybe we should stop buying all this unnecessary crap for holidays and start focusing on living within our means? Maybe stop purchasing all the junk, disposable toys, cheap electronics, and basically unrepairable (by design) Chinese goods that flood our markets?

I don't know. Seems unreasonable.


:eyeroll:

a reply to: havok

Trump was ridiculed for suggesting manufacturing should return to America.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: Bluntone22

One of the major reasons is nowhere to put the inbound containers with the empties sitting at the ports.

so it's just a space issue and not manpower?

a reply to: havok

It's a fair point and probably the most sustainable action but people have a half century plus addiction to getting goods when they want, where they want for the lowest price. A good amount of what's sitting out there is out of season or frozen foodstuffs that we import because we need to have, for example, cheap shrimp regularly.

a reply to: Bluntone22

Or better yet, skip Christmas altogether. After all, Christmas is a Christian holiday; if you are not a Christian, you have nothing to celebrate.

originally posted by: network dude
so it's just a space issue and not manpower?

The 'one of the major reasons' part of my short sentence implies there are other issues. We were just at the MAG conference, to which this issue directly impacts all of them, and the general consensus on what one of the major reasons for the delays from transhippers themselves was what I posted above.

originally posted by: network dude

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: Bluntone22

One of the major reasons is nowhere to put the inbound containers with the empties sitting at the ports.

so it's just a space issue and not manpower?

It's the combination of several problems hitting at once.
There are not enough trains or trucks to move the cargo.
There has been a container shortage for years.
The dock workers are an issue too.

Funny how these dem-controlled port states have not even floated the idea of bringing in the National Guard and Coast Guard to help resolve the worker shortage causing the supply chain break down.

This is affecting national security and general well being as much as, if not more than, the hospital staff shortages these tyrants caused.

Why are supply chains so messed up?

...,..The simple answer is there is a sudden and massive surge of demand that far outweighs the market’s capacity. The global supply chain infrastructure that exists simply can’t handle the volume of products flowing through the economy. The root cause can be blamed on the extraordinary government stimulus that has stimulated demand.
As the money flowed from the government, it ended up in the hands of consumers and businesses that spent it. The transfer of money coincided with a shift in consumer demand from purchasing services to purchasing physical products. This caused the United States to race through trillions of dollars of inventory while domestic and global production was shut down.

Simply stated, production was shut down while the U.S. economy went into demand overdrive. As production came back online, the manufacturing sector responded by fulfilling an unprecedented backlog of orders. ......

And this is not just an issue in the United States. This issue also exists in China. In fact, as I write this, the coastal cities of China have four times as many ships sitting off the coast as the Pacific ports in the United States do.

The oceans are also just one part of the story. To get freight to American consumers, it must go through an intricate system – shifting from port to other modes of transportation. This may include dozens of touchpoints in the domestic freight network, all of which are vulnerable to their own choke points. ....

a reply to: Deny Arrogance

Still doesn't help the storage, truck and train problems.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

Yes. Cheap frozen bags of shrimp from Chinese farming factories. Call me cynical but sometimes I believe that people don't want to see anything change because it would cause a struggle the likes we haven't seen in many decades.

I agree 110%.

a reply to: Deny Arrogance

And what problems do you cause by yanking the Guard out of their civilian lives and jobs to do jobs Democrats are paying people not to do?

Planned chaos using the Cloward-Piven overload strategy 😎

Dozens of new "crises" can be launched and exploited 😎

Pimples start popping next year 😎

It's all just artificial inflation of prices...
And every manufactured crisis is about that.
Than the crisis is over and prices never go down.

a reply to: Bluntone22

I think firing people due to not wanting to take the vaccine would surely help-‘Government’

I guess there are workers unions that would strongly disagree with that proposal.
Also, most harbor workers nowadays are specialists in their own right. Crane operators for instance and loading masters etc. Many work with modern machinery that needs special training.

a reply to: Deny Arrogance

a reply to: ketsuko

Ask the school bus driving soldiers and hospital workers.

Kids are getting to school and patients are being seen.

It’s an unprecedented national disaster and the NG has always been called on to assist with national disasters, regardless of how they were caused.

originally posted by: AcrobaticDreams
a reply to: Bluntone22

I think firing people due to not wanting to take the vaccine would surely help-‘Government’

Ha, yeah.
It is pretty ironic that just months ago healthcare workers were risking their lives to take care of covid patients but now they are being fired for not taking a vaccine.

Didn't take long for the media to turn on them.