There is a container backup at American ports. There are various places on the Internet where you can look at the ships waiting to be unloaded. The Biden administration claims that the backup is due to the coronavirus. Actually there is another part of the story.<\/p>\n
Yesterday The Conservative Treehouse<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n Hundreds of requests for details on the specifics of the container shipping backlog.\u00a0 So, I spent 3 days calling sources, digging for details and gathering information on the substantive issue at hand.\u00a0 The epicenter of the problem is not what is being outlined by financial media, corporate media and politicians who have a specific interest in distracting from the issues at hand.\u00a0 This has nothing to do with COVID-19<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n The issues being discussed today relate to events that happened a long time ago.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, it was so predictable that Amazon, Walmart, UPS, FedEx, Samsung, The Home Depot and Target all had taken actions years ago -long before COVID- because they knew this day would come.\u00a0 It was not accidental that those companies showed up at the White House to discuss the issue, because there\u2019s now a full court press to hide it.<\/strong><\/p>\n There is one very specific regional issue driving the problem.\u00a0 Read on:<\/strong><\/p>\n The trucking issue with California LA ports, ie the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) and the Port of Long Beach (POLB), is that all semi tractors have to be current with new California emissions standards<\/a>.\u00a0 As a consequence, that mean trucks cannot be older than 3 years if they are to pick up or deliver containers at those ports.\u00a0 This issue wipes out approximately half of the fleet trucks used to move containers in\/out of the port.\u00a0 Operating the port 24\/7 will not cure the issue, because all it does is pile up more containers that sit idle as they await a limited number of trucks to pick them up.\u00a0 THIS is the central issue<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Please follow the link to read the entire article. There needs to be a balance between environmentalism and progress. Some of our state governors have not learned this lesson yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is a container backup at American ports. There are various places on the Internet where you can look at the ships waiting to be unloaded. The Biden administration claims that the backup is due to the coronavirus. Actually there … Continue reading