What America's Supply-Chain Backlog Looks Like Up Close | WSJ
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2021
- California’s Port of Los Angeles is struggling to keep up with the crush of cargo containers arriving at its terminals, creating one of the biggest choke points in the global supply-chain crisis. This exclusive aerial video illustrates the scope of the problem and the complexities of this process. Photo: Thomas C. Miller
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i feel like this video was more about the drone shots than the actual content
Why don't you ask the truckers about why they are no longer allowed into California? They should have removed that Governor when they had the chance.
CA just past a law that no truck older 3years can drive to ports. & this is planned
There's not a chance of getting out the corrupt politicians when they've mastered voter fraud.
it was Reagan who deregulated the Trucking Industry and destroyed the back bone of the movement of goods and services, wast it stupid
@@agnessa3126
no
no diesel that doesnt meet Californias environmental standards can haul out of a California Port dummy
@@phillupspace3534 Diesel emissions are a moving target. The CARB and AQMD's goal is zero emission for port operation (ships, dockside equipment and trucks), dummy.
If drones were around during the Great Depression, Wall Street Journal would probably give us nice aerial footage with soft back ground music of the long food lines.
California passed a new green law for the large trucks which carry the goods. Most trucks do not meet the new regulations imposed by the State. Therefore very few trucks are in line with this new law causing a massive back load of goods and that is why we have this problem.
what is your excuse for floridas ports being backlogged? or is that californias fault as well?
@@pyronac1 Yes plus the Clintons!
@@boristheamerican2938 i guess it is all bidens fault as well. even though this started under trump.
That’s a huge lie a week or two ago CNBC did a story of trucks and I quote “thousands” lined up at the port and one truck driver said he waits there 8-9 hours sometimes
So you would like do you have a piece of s*** truck going 70 miles an hour down the freeway with no brakes duhhhh
Why is this not a national emergency - medical supplies, basic consumables, price inflation everywhere impacting every level of the economy including those most vulnerable?
Why can't America make the things on the ships, and stop this mess?
@@ducewags You willing to work in the iPhone factories with suicide nets?
By design
Because its just consumer goods
Because it’s being done on purpose. Other countries are also experiencing shortages so that’s quite a coincidence to be some naturally occurring problem.
this has a lot of nice shots of the port, except it mentions nothing as to WHY this delay or backup is happening. maddening.
@Lee Jon I'm sure there's plenty of driver's, it's the US government getting in the way
@Lee Jon makes sense, it's well known that presidents want to keep inflation up and it helps their party in elections.
it's because the stupid governer of california shut the state down and cut hours due to covid , now it's JUST getting back to 24/7 operations which it should have been in anticiaption of the holiday season
@@walexia But how does that double the time to unload and reload a vessel? No night shift means 8 hours of shutdown which increases the length of time by a third - what's the rest of the delay caused by? Is the workforce at 100% capacity? If not, was it because Covid infections decimated the ranks of the workers? It's not a lack of space to unload since 10% of the tarmac is available for unloading. Why are there not enough trucks for transport? Even if THEY were affected by mandated cuts in hours, it still doesn't explain why a specific shipment isn't picked up at 10 am instead of 4 am.
Well, title does simply say "What America's Supply-Chain Backlog Looks Like Up Close", instead of "Why America's Supply-Chain is Backlogged".
This holiday season, skip a toy buy a neighbor a meal.
Some of us haven’t had Christmas for years now! Shocking, I know.
Great idea, though! I love it!
Excellent thought
Good idea
Thank you. We need more compassionate and empathic thinking. If we do buy a toy for this holiday season, this would be a good time to think about donating it to a child who might not be receiving any other gifts this year. That would be a wonderful Christmas message to send to the world.
I prefer voice over rather than text on video. WSJ please do that.
Their voice actor was in one of those containers waiting in the bay
WSJ does not give a f-ck what you think. They are busy drive a narrative and controlling public opinion for their real bosses, the oligarch owners of their mickey mouse media monopoly outlet.
@@richardwilde1348 😂
I prefer text over voice
It took over 6 months of constant back-up before the geniuses decided that not shutting down the ports evenings and weekends might help alleviate the problem???
You miss the part where it said no trucks show up for 1/3 of the appointments? It's even worse at night. Go read FlexPort's twitter.
I like the recent mainstream focus on ships, but it's for all the wrong reasons. Oh well. I'll take what I can get.
Good job on the cinematic pans and sweeps.
This was a dumb take. They say it take more time to unload containers post pandemic but didn’t say why. They say 30% trucking appointments go unused, but doesn’t say why. This just creates confusion and panic instead of addressing the issue. Thanks WSJ, the deterioration in style/quality has been obvious since Rupert Murdoch took WSJ over.
1) Because the ports are intentionally slowing things down.
2) Because the trucking appointments can be ridiculously strict and doesn't allow for accounting for things like traffic, warehouse, or most ironically PORT delays. Say you're a driver with an 8 AM appointment but the ports takes 3+ hours to service you with your first container, how are you suppose to reasonably make your next 1 hour window appointment at the port when the appointment was grabbed under the assumption you wouldn't be stuck at the port for 3+ hours? There isn't really any convenient rescheduling possible (sometimes they make you wait days for the next appointment slot).
Are you suppose to just work one container a day? Or do you have to bake in significant down time of doing literally nothing in between if everything works out?
@@John- thanks for the explanation. So basically port delays are cascading into more and longer delays downstream. Actually I suppose upstream as well because new containers end up in long queues to dock and are now off schedule too.
Question on your first point - Why are ports intentionally slowing down?
As a former truck driver when I hear that some people want to lower tha standards for a CDL license I cringe.
Great those swift steering wheel holder are scary enough with the standards we have.
same brother. Agreed.
Stuff made in America doesn’t have to come into the country through a port.
Yes exactly what a disgrace
@Hi There and what is made in America now day's for sale or trade to other places'? NOTHING.
OK, go buy a new Ford or GM vehicle.
@@areuaware6842 We import chips from other countries; especially Taiwan. So again, I’ll reiterate what I said since you’re too slow to understand: if it was made in America, we wouldn’t have to import it and this wouldn’t have this issue.
@@areuaware6842 the big 3 are mostly made in Canada and Mexico. There are more “foreign cars” made in America than “US” cars
The biggest problem with the ports is the long waits to get in and out. It's not a trucker shortage
I heard that California will not allow trucks that are 10 years or older haul containers , heard from source at Long Beach port, please check it out
Or independent truck drivers
FACT! New state regulations are insanely out of control! 🤬
Have sitting ..a mile long parked semi..waiting to get loaded..in meantime FLORIDA says bring them there they will unload them
@@Tedss-wd3ni Once again, Florida is proving how to properly run a state.
@@Tedss-wd3ni Do they have to go through the Panama Canal...
No one is talking about how some of those goods on the ships are going bad will waiting to be unloaded.
Atleast we don't have to worry about mean tweets.
Let's go Brandon
Yeah he's going alright he's going to jail, just where they all belong every one of the rat plague people and gravy Marines!
I know this is a bad thing to happen but the drone footage is really cool. It’s incredible seeing the scale of it all from above.
This has been going on for over a year now just something new for the media.
Whatever helps you sleep at night.. let’s go Brandon!
Unionized workers do the absolutely minimum amount of work required.
Heard they were taking long breaks and had operators taking 4 hours to unload a container! They make 250k a year more than a congressman both who do little work!
Same Union workers who have been setting record after record of cargo moved during a pandemic?
Can't believe the largest port in the USA doesn't operate 24/7 all the time, how poorly run is it?
Ask Mario and Luigi
There is congestion in ONE US port L.A.
“There’s no congestion at the Oakland seaport, and we’re ready for more business,” Port of Oakland Maritime Director Bryan Brandes said in news release. “We need ocean carriers to reinstate services in order to stabilize the supply chain, and our import and export partners echo this sentiment.”
The Port said containerized cargo volume is up 4.2 percent in 2021 but insisted there’s capacity for more. That’s in stark contrast to Southern California ports where up to 70 ships daily wait at anchor for berth space.
Oakland officials said the port has not experienced vessel backlogs since August.
According to port officials, 54 vessels stopped in Oakland last month - the lowest vessel call total since 2015. As a result, September import volume declined 13 percent from September 2020. Exports were down 18 percent.
Exactly, the ships could divert to other ports...
So why did I hear earlier this year that ships were drifting outside the Golden Gate? Besides, if OAK/SF had capacity, wouldn't shippers be diverting from SoCal by now?
The very first ship shown in the video is the one that's purported to have dragged its anchor across an oil pipeline causing the oil spill in California a few weeks ago.
Many dock workers and truckers walked out due to mandatory jabs. They made enough to buffer this financially and there are plenty of places to work that don’t require the jabs.
Source?
@@jared7964 probably same source/reason as to why not to many planes will be flying come Nov 24th
As far as I'm aware, not a single drayman (port trucker) has walked out yet due to mandatory jabs. The vast majority of trucking companies aren't requiring jabs. (Many suggest it but don't mandate it since truckers spend almost all their time in the truck with no contact with the office or really anybody.)
Amazing beautiful working Ports !
This barely has any information. What little information that does exist feels like it's being stretched to hit the 5 minute mark.
That's what I thought. I Came to find out why this is happening and continues. I'll look elsewhere.
Typical of a lot of vids that SUPPOSEDLY give You solid and hard info. You get lots of camera work but VERY LITTLE INFO! Hope that You can find some solid info some where on the web.
250,000 containers idling? There's 100 ships waiting to unload. Even if all of them are carrying the minimum that's 1,000,000. It's 1.8M if they are carrying the mid range and 2.1M if all of them where the biggest ships. Which obviously they're not but still a 1M is way more than 250k. Seems to me they're downplaying it massively.
The informative content of the video could have been made in under a minute. If not for the repeated cinematic pans of ships, containers, cranes and all over again. Didn't expect this from WSJ.
When are u gonna realize ur the joke. And now U have to relate to us common folk who read the daily news 📰. Oh but we wouldn’t wipe our feet on the NY POST
I was actually enlightened on how dense this operation is as this was the first time I’ve seen these angles and the movement of the camera helped
The happy music is titled (build back better). All is going according to plan.
It is because the secretary Pete had a 3 month maternity holiday. We all know how difficult it is to give birth.
Ya I still don't get that. Women don't get paid maternity leave but two gay guys do because they work for the DNC??? Weird world
Peteternity leave
@@durango8882 nice new term. 😂
You jealous of Pete?💩4🧠's
@@sistermaryfrances4480 not at all, i think that she should stay home until Biden's term is over. 😉
It looks like a big Pool party with ships. I hope they have awesome music
It's Bidens Boat Parade 🚢⚓🚢⚓🚢⚓
@@autojohn-pu1vf It’s more COVID boat parade!
Stop Complaining. Americans have very high expectations per Pete Buttigieg. Don't you understand that with this administration your expectations should be ZERO!!! Everything explained in a nutshell.
If they knew there was a back up in the Port why didnt they stop the ships from leaving China..Its all deliberate...
Finally you get a video with no TALKING. Then you want some talking 😁
What the port needs is a rail network. One container per truck is simply too inefficient.
Nice video.
Lets not forget the broke a pipeline!
Looks crazy
Willful Negligence
Very interesting views of the port... and it's good to see all the logistics and supply chain experts out in the comments today. I'm sure their ideas will get this matter solved pronto!
I think it'd be quicker to just reroute to Florida.....
Current shipping rates aren't quite high enough to justify the extra fuel costs and toll fees involved with going through the Panama Canal but some shippers are starting to talk about it
@@ipickmybutt2472 it all depends on the length of delay most of these major vessels can't afford to sit for long.
The shipping rates arent very good either sailing thorough the canal would be burning your money for fuel ship and labor expenses
The real reason for the backlog is due to regulations passed by CARB with regards to which trucks are allowed into the Port of LA. The issue is that containers can be unloaded off of ships a lot faster than they can be trucked out of the port so when port tarmacs hit capacity, ships are forced to idle at anchor or do circles once the anchor area fills up. Because of environmental regulations put in place by CARB, half of the trucks in the US fleet that used to be able to ship containers out of the port are no longer environmentally qualified to do so (only trucks built within the last 3 years can). Operating ports at 24 hours a day won't solve the current backlog and is little more than a PR move. Temporarily lifting the regulations that block 50% of the available truck fleet from servicing the Port would resolve the whole issue. Given the lack of reporting and politics involved behind the matter, however, I don't see this happening any time within the next six months.
except any tractor can be immediately retrofitted to meet Californias diesel emissions standards and work out of California Ports if truckers want the work, cant they dopey
Actually trucks and rails can truck containers out of & Into (empty/exports) the port faster than they can be unloaded off the ships.
Several of the ports intentionally neglect trucks specifically so they can unload containers off the ships.
@@John-
actually kid you arent the smartest person on the planet and the only one with original ideas.
Profits are a great motivator.
if there was a better way of doing things .. they would be doing it and enjoying the cash benefits of their labor and innovation, skippy
@@phillupspace3534 I never claimed to be the smartest and I completely agree that profits are a great motivator. I've been involved in the industry for almost a decade now (mostly trucking but also on the logistics side of things).
I can tell you for a fact that the ports and SSLs are financially incentivized to delay/prevent goods from flowing smoothly via Demurrage/Per Diem fees which are at least $140 per day (higher depending on the port/SSL & the length of time it goes past the last free day.)
@@John-
Capitalism teaches that every aspect of a market economy is engaged in competition.
the most innovative and efficient provider of goods and services always has the lowest cost which attracts the greatest market share and thus greatest profits ... forcing the competition out of business
you flunked that high school *ECONOMICS* class didnt you
More like 150 ships and another 150+ on east coast. This was all planned
Of course it was💯
Absolutely. There is no shortage of anything. It's all sitting right there. The NWO puppets are just making sure it doesn't go anywhere, on purpose, to further create problems for us. They're trying to make us come crawling to them: "Please give us food and supplies".
Do you think the 6th mass extinction and abrupt climate change was planned too?
As many others have mentioned, I'm a fan of the format and the aerial shots are beautiful, but the lack of substantive information is unfortunate.
Cali could relax regulations, ships could divert to other ports... Seems to me like the powers that be want common folk to go without!
We need a Transportation Secretary that actually knows what they are doing. Someone who has a list of the ports that can handle that particular sized ship and make arrangements to divert it there along with the resources to offload and transport the products to their destinations. But we don't have that yet he believes he would make a good President.
Crane operators make up to 250k a year and are union! Truck drivers if they complain there get passed over getting their container! Some were complaining that it took up to 4 hours to unload one container and the crane operators taking long breaks! Truckers also mentioned you could be banned from port permanently if you complained too much with cops escorting you off property! Union workers probably got unqualified friends and relatives on! Plus Oakland has openings for cargo ships! Is the local union blocking them from going elsewhere!
You did nothing to answer the question of "Why?" The port tarmac is at 90% capacity, and 33% of the truck appointments are not being used - why? Are the trucks at the port but not being loaded, or are there not enough trucks at the port? If the problem is not enough trucks, then running the port 24/7 isn't going to help. Is there enough trained personnel to run the port 24/7? Where, EXACTLY, is the bottleneck in this process??
There's plenty of trucks don't let the media fool you. In fact the load I'm under came from the LA port and is going straight to Chicago so there is 2 sides to the story and mainstream media don't want you to know the current administration is corrupt as they come welcome to the new world order
u must get ur word out my grampaw used to call me big dummy when I was a kid cuz he new I hated it- cuz I was intelligent
@@robertlee6338 You pay me 90 000/yr, I sit in a line all day, time and a half after eight.
This is all happening *BY DESIGN* ... 🤬
. Why and How ?
Do the ships crew get to come to land or are they stuck on the ship? Shore leave is 1/2 the reason to work on these
I watched another RUclips video last week about this same subject, and they reported that many ports require the entire crew of these container ships to be covid tested, and if even one tests positive, the ship is denied permission to enter the port. They also said many of these shipping companies hire their workers from impoverished countries because they can pay them next to nothing! There are situations where these shipping companies have declared bankruptcy and abandoned these ships, crew still on board, because they couldn’t dock and unload. These people are stuck on a ship at sea with limited food, and NOBODY to help them!
Paint my container bright neon fuchsia so it can be spotted anywhere. Then I'll hire a heavy duty chopper to pick it up! Lol! It may even be cheaper. But I agree with many that have already said it, make it in the USA and there won't be this problem.
No one mentions anything about railroad usage and the advantage it could play in distribution.
This wasnt no accident. They have Florida offering to help.
It's Bidens Boat Parade 🚢⚓🚢⚓🚢⚓
Looks like Asia is leading in infrastructure management
This is insanity. Let’s go Brandon!
More cost for the middle class, or poor. Fixed it.
I believe that the most important for the global supply chain is set the priority commodities as a electronic chips, medicines and health supplies. But the mundial commerce have been given priority to season supplies as a toys and Christmas gifts.
60 minutes showed where, one cause of the shipping back log is empty cargo containers taking up trailers. Fine space, use uploaded empty, and sack the empties.
Appreciate Your Trucker Day is 1st November
hahahahahaaa
if you own a boat or a yatch then hoist the pirate flag and board these, how you say, sitting ducks. or is it floating ducks?
I used to think that US is an industrialized country. I'm getting to know that America is so import dependent.
To improve the "bottom line", a lot of corporations have outsourced mfg to foreign countries over-seas. WE now have BAD KARMA since this was NOT a good idea.
@@jtc1947 I don't think it's a good idea for US national security to be so dependent on Asia for the most baaic of items. Diversify! If it's cheap labor West Africa is nearby.
@@izuchukwuezukanma1132 You might STILL have a transportation problem? A pen-pal said that the "mandate" of 14 days quarantine on container type vessels is totally idiotic. BE SAFE & WELL.
Consumer driven bedroom country
@@brianjohnson6053 if I may ask, what does America manufacture and export nowadays? Pork chops to China?
Creating a shortage on shelves. Not an actual issue with supply. If yards are 90% back logged get more Crane operators and trucks in there. California rules about semi transports are far too stringent. Only truck cabs under 3 years old allowed. You would think every truck capable of hauling would be ready willing and able to get these supplies moving. What about the train rail system that crosses both USA and Canada! Use it!
What's the limiting factor? Trucks, Drivers, etc?
We have a serious lack of leadership.
this video signifies why the port of LA is struggling to keep up
My family have sent me some stuff during the Pandemic from overseas and it is been over 6 months and still not seeing the boxes delivered. Thanks Joe.
it's probably feeding a whale
Why are ships taking longer to unload? government policies that pay people to stay home - this is 100% government created
Event though federal unemployment already ended?
I live in the Puget Sound and I don't understand this at all. There is no shortage of trucks at the Seattle Port or the Tacoma Port. Nor is there a shortage of employees at the Ports. So what the he'll is the back up being caused by?
Maybe those in control want to show more control
The West Coast needs more ports, like up to 10 of them from Seattle Wash. to San Diego.
California is also further choking itself by implementing a new law that states trucks made before 1996 are not allowed to ship containers from the ports, which leads a lot of truck drivers unable to drive and deliver. Unbelievable.
Most 1996 trucks are not on the road any more. You give me a truck without adaptive cruise and power everything, and I'll walk.
America has 360 ports that can handle most of those ships.
except California has the consumer demand for the goods and services.
producers can ship their goods to any port they choose
California remains the most robust economy in the Nation ... and thats where the goods and services are going
@@phillupspace3534 I've heard differently and that much of the goods go all over the United States by truck and rail.
There are ports in San Diego, San Francisco, Concord, Alameda, etc. Not to mention Oregon at Astoria, Portland, Vancouver, also Seattle, And Vancouver BC. All of them except Astoria can handle the largest ships. The draft on those ships are not deep at all.
That's 8 large ports I see without even looking at the map. Take 7 freighters each and that's 56 ships that can get moving out of there.
@@tmayorca8770
youve heard that the California Economy isnt the most innovative and productive economy in the Nation ?
ask yourself why producers of goods and services use West Coast Ports.
search engine
learn to use one kid
*HONOR* *UNION* *LABOR*
@@phillupspace3534 ok little boy. How old are you 12? Yeah, I've been in unions and most suck. They don't have your back. And where do you get your ridiculous opinions from a Cracker Jack box? California is a pathetic little commie state. Trust me I've lived there and it's gone downhill since the 1970's. You're too young to know any better.
Lets go Brandon!
Made in USA needs to be the way again.
Yes, agreed, but first must ask American consumers if they are willing to pay much higher prices for items ranging from toys to appliances.
@@Birdylockso and of many americans are willing to be working in factories and industrial centers again
@@inigobantok1579 , exactly!
What supply chain looks like up close... Flies hundreds of feet above subject. So a little math: 72 ships waiting and as many as 8000 trucks to unload- per ship?!? (some will go by rail but how much?)
Trucks will not be able to reduce this backlog. The only way this pile of containers can be moved is by train, because maths.
This is what happens when you let one political side that has gone off the proverbial cliff run your state for too long. Hey but at least there is no more mean tweets. FJB.
Isn’t the port controlled by the fed…
@@itsmeprasad1987 When regurgitating dogma, people often don't stop and think.
@@itsmeprasad1987 NO! Port Authority of San Pedro / Long Beach. Feds get involved only in the Customs and Terrorist screening procedures.
@@paillette2010 yes like how the port, the city, the county, the state, the senate, the house, the Whitehouse and the media monopoly are all controlled by the DNC but somehow it's Trump fault......
@@Rays_Bad_Decisions wow. that got into the Land of the Triggered, super fast. Melting snowflakes are just so painful to watch. #sorryforyou #fuckyourinsurrection
Hoarding has become a national pastime?
Burden is killing it! 😂
Do you mean the buffoon and his goons??
A direct result of the Longshoreman Monopoly. Get rid of that situation, the choke point will be gone!
Same Longshoremen who have been setting record after record of cargo moved during a pandemic?
Why can't USA get these goods out to distributors, instead letting the goods sit until they go bad? There are still people in the USA that want to work. Offer jobs to them with descent pay per hour. There are shortages at all stores and markets. This is hurting all of the citizens of the USA. Wake up people and do the right thing.
They should have put those hand full of paragraphs in the description and saved each viewer 5 minutes.
Some kind of slide show, please upload a video at 60 fps.
This is not happening to goods that are made here in the U.S. Too many people are buying goods made overseas. This has created a backlog of ships. Goods, "MADE IN USA" don't have this problem. It's time to bring back U.S production plants and factories back to our own country.
Okay, you showed me what is happening, but why is it happening. Where can I find that detail?
it got a lot to do with COVID like more people started buying online last year and truck driver shortage because covid and state of California COVID-19 policy's
Great commentary WSJ, lol......
Sad to know that most of this stuff will end up in the trash
So let me get this straight a gay person had a baby took two months maternity leave and now I don't have any food on the shelves at my grocery store 🙃...
A BIG move and a BAD ONE to have a person that was a town MAYOR suddenly put up as Sec of Trans.
Inflation is not transitory. If you think companies will begin to lower their prices, you must be crazy. Welcome back to the 1970's.
FL says bring the container ships their. They will unload them.
They have to get them there! How would they get to Florida from California? Then you would need all those extra trucks to be able to get into the ports and Florida roads to the ports aren't able to handle that kind of operational stress!
We are cooking with ports delivering !
So this is where all of the Apple Polishing clothes are sitting?
How's the weather?
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach already operate 24 hours a day. Crane operators are paid 250,000.00 a year and regular longshoremen are paid 200,000.00 a year. I realize the longshoremen's union, ILWU, is extremely hard to get into but there has to be enough longshoremen willing to work to clear the port. An investigation needs to be conducted to ascertain exactly where to bottleneck exists. We used to have a professional FBI that we could depend on to investigate these issues. Now the FBI is nothing more than a political hack machine.
You ever see a longshoreman work🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 let's talk about the funniest post I've ever seen.
beautiful shots considering its a port... just wish the filming wasn't so stuttery. Hard to watch on a large screen.
Don't worry, it should get better now that Pete Buttigieg is back from 3 months of breastfeeding duties.
Not.
This is some gta hiest type material
Wow, that is a serious amount of containers, seems the truck drivers will be the last having to leave their jobs.
There's no truck driver shortage. One would only need to try to find a parking space at truck stop around 5pm to dispel that myth. Warehousing can be part of the blame as $20 hourly still can't seem to keep folks on the job. The slower load/unload times hurts productivity as drivers wait hours for a loaded or empty van. The real question that no one is asking is, who owns the ports? It might say Port of Los Angeles BUT who owns and operates the terminals? Most of the largest terminals at the ports are owned by 🇨🇳 Research it for yourself.
If supply chain issues were that bad, we wouldnt be letting all of those jobless, illiterate consumers across the Southern border. When they close the border due to crisis, then this becomes believable.
What backlog? San Francisco ports are half empty. Just move to a different port.
Buy local wherever you can, folks
Ports of Seattle, Tacoma, Oakland, are not busy.
Another good question...why is America continuing to rely on imported goods so heavily? That is stupid. If you buy in America, youll be relying only on a semi, not 800 ships in a harbor.
We don't have enough semis either
The reasons are the same that they were from the 70's through the 00's, unions, taxes and regulations. All of these drove the manufacting base overseas, they were coming back slowly under Trump, but that will end quickly under Biden.
@@stevestoll3124 that isnt entirely true. cheap labor overseas was a much large contributor. when the USSR threw in the towel in the 80s eastern europe was opened up to be used as major manufacturing centers for western countries. the same happened a decade and a half later in china when they loosened restrictions on foreign capital entering their country and all but announced to the west "bring your manufacturing here". essentially the result of communism post WW2 was that it closed off 1/2 of the worlds population to western investors, but these people were also fairly well educated and skilled, albeit very very poor... when communism fell these countries slowly opened themselves up, spurring a mass exodus of US and european manufacturing to these much cheaper areas. alot of ppl think unions and taxes drove away manufacturing, which in part is true but it's only a very small part of the picture, as we had higher rates of unionization, wages, and higher taxes during the "golden age of capialism" in which US companies' manufacturing base was domestic. what changed was the fall of communism, opening up the rest of the worlds labor force to compete with those here.
it really cant be understated the impact of having half the worlds labor pool closed off to the west, and then subsequently opened up again. that said the increasingly litigious nature of US and western countries has definitely been a major factor in companies leaving.
Either buy imports or pay much more money for the same stuff. That is why Walmart carries stuff made in Asia. It's also why Americans love to shop at Walmart. Cheaper prices.
@@titolovely8237 good comment...i agree
INCOMPETENCE OF A ADMINISTRATION!!!!!! LETS GO BRANDON!!!!!!!!