At the Long Beach port, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg praised local efforts to improve supply-chain issues. But a fresh challenge looms.
The supply-chain nightmare didn’t cancel Christmas, but another holiday crisis is looming: the Lunar New Year.
The wave of cargo ships carrying goods to U.S. consumers is expected to reach California in the next two or three weeks, port officials said.On Tuesday, as Buttigieg praised local officials for moves that eased bottlenecks around the holiday period, 60 cargo ships idled offshore near the Long Beach port, waiting for their turn to dock.
But Seroka said the effort has been hampered because most elements of the supply chain — including warehouse operators and truck drivers — don’t operate 24 hours a day, making it difficult to accept cargo at the ports in the middle of the night when workers aren’t available to receive the products. Making matters worse, he said, is a shortage of truck drivers and warehouse workers since the start of the pandemic.
Together the two sprawling ports are responsible for handling nearly half of all imports into the United States, making them a key part of logistical networks strained by the coronavirus crisis.Officials at the ports started Nov. 15 to impose a fee on containers that sit around for more than six days if intended for rail transport or nine days if intended for trucks.
About a dozen elected officials, labor leaders and port executives at a news conference at the Long Beach port extolled the recent efforts to keep store shelves full during the holiday season.Mastercard SpendingPulse
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