Importers have to wait for containers to be unburied, which can take weeks before its even available for them to send a trucker to pick it up. If US terminals expanded their open hours for truckers, it would help alleviate some of the congestion, 12/
Shelly Davis
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As this race began, container shipping lines did all they could to get more goods to the US, such as loading empty containers to sail back to Asia (instead of loading with export goods) and adding every available vessel into the loop. 6/
2/there is no silver bullet. It’s a massive combination of labor shortage, regulation at ports and terminals, ship line and terminal international ownership, lack of competition among shiplines, antiquated federal maritime regulation, trucking regulation,…
Sometimes those extra hours are last minute. Most Asian terminals operate 24/7, maybe closing for some holidays. US Longshoremen comment they are willing to operate extra hours, but their bill has to be picked up by the ocean terminal, who then charges the ocean carriers. 14/
Containers for rail couldn<U+2019>t be sent because of 13+ miles of train car backups at inland destinations. Terminals are full of both loaded import containers and empty containers waiting to be loaded onto vessels or with export goods. 10/
<U+0001F682> Ocean Terminals/Ports: American port systems were warned of an incoming surge of imports and terminal grounds/extra warehouses all filled quickly. Containers were stacked higher and in more areas of terminals than ever before. 9/
Container ships in PNW (Pacific Northwest). Note squares are anchored vessels. 22/ https://t.co/P0BO8Y2ZL0
@brandibuzzard A lot of things that have been problematic for years is amplified right now - truck driver shortages, high cost of trucking, costly regulation, poor efficiencies in our port/terminal systems, antiquated maritime regulation that doesn<U+2019>t make sense or isn<U+2019>t modernized, more <U+2B07><U+FE0F>