It will be even worse when Gavin Newsome is President.
Pete Buttigieg- Major supply chain issues- no experience
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I hear ya and see him in motion on that.
The part that makes the LED light on my forehead flicker from red to yellow is imagining what a primary would look with both Newsome and Kamala in the race.
Now the lefties here will pipe up and say that I am the guy who said the same about Biden and Kamala in the last race- ie. that I could never form an image in my mind of either one of them functioning as President or Vice President. Well, guess what, I still can't.
Newsome be having that whitey-tighty problem though. If California is going to surface a loser for that race, I do see that Bacerra has been positioned for it. Beyond just taking a cheap shot at Kamala, I honestly do think she is on the verge of some kind of breakdown. It might not show in the form of going totally clinical but I can see her more or less just going into seclusion and brushing off any and all complaints about her being missing in action and then leaving at the end of the term. She is pretty much 70% of the way there right now. Karen Bass- a/k/a Che Guevera's sister- is going to run for mayor of Los Angeles. I guess that woman who shot the new jersey state trooper and fled to Cuba was not available to run.
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They interviewed the Director of the Port of Wilmington (NC) on local TV. He noted that the east coast ports are not having supply chain and shipping back-up issues. The issues involve west coast ports and the huge volume of items which come from China. This "Supply Chain" issue is really associated with China-related shipping and distribution only -- in many ways it is a volume issue.
In related news...
Buttigieg says US supply chain issues will 'certainly' continue into 2022
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/17/politics/pete-buttigieg-supply-chain-issues-cnntv/index.html
In related news...
Buttigieg says US supply chain issues will 'certainly' continue into 2022
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/17/politics/pete-buttigieg-supply-chain-issues-cnntv/index.html
The east coast ports best not get too complacent though.
East Coast Ports: You’re Next
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/east-coast-ports-youre-next/
This has not hit the East Coast ports the same way but still the same problem from Asia. Getting space from Asia to NY, Charleston or Savannah or Houston is IMPOSSIBLE.
Freight rates from NY went from $2500 to $21,000 per container!
Also from Asia means from China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam... this is NOT just a China issue.
NY does not have the backup Long Beach does simply because most imports from Asia enter via West Coast but space to NY and freight rates have skyrocketed. Same up and down the whole East Coast. Only thing East Coast does not have right now is major backlog of ships sitting outside the port but the space and freight issues are the same.
The cargo volume at the airport in Anchorage continues to go through the roof. Obviously most shipping container traffic cannot migrate over to airfreight because of the nature of the beast that they are transporting. But some of it is on the edge of what can be done with airfreight with the pricing being what it is, also you pick up the time savings by not being queue for days. Anchorage is a a big cargo airport in the best of times anyway because the planes can carry more cargo by stopping to refuel there rather than carrying a full load of fuel and doing it in one shot if you are going further east- if you get my drift.
Same thing with going through the canal. Not desireable. Doesn;t mean plenty are not looking at it more and more.
You are correct. As mentioned in the interview -- the Wilmington port director made it very clear the volume of shipping from Asia is much lower to the east coast than the west coast. In fact it is cheaper to ship from Asia to the west coast and then transport the goods across the U.S. by track/rail/etc. then to ship to the east coast from Asia generally. The interview also listed out volume from Asian countries (all which have problems now) but China was much larger than the others in terms of the goods being shipped.
The shipping rates have skyrocketed all over -- with the largest increases being related to Asian exports of course. The shipping rate increases are not just limited to Asian trade.
BTW --- the ports of Charleston, Savannah, and Wilmington still have available capacity for shipping, unloading, etc. -- the crux of the interview was if more ships from Asia may come to these Southern U.S. ports due to the crisis on the west coast. Interestingly enough the answer is "No" -- most Asian shipping will stick with the west coast despite the delays. It should be noted that these Southern ports -- many which recently upgraded their facilities -- are hitting records recently in containers unloaded but they were underutilized to start with.
Charleston, SC for example does have space to receive cargo but ships from Asia to Charleston dont have space to carry cargo there as their space is all booked on the trans Pacific leg. So it is an unfortunate problem as shippers would probably love to divert to smaller ports but trans pacific space is still oversold.
There are also issues with these ports not being able to accept very large ships.
And another problem caused by the west coast shipping issues...
Shipping Containers That Spent Weeks Aboard Ships Stuck At Ports Now Being Dumped In Nearby Neighborhoods
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/10/18/cargo-ship-bottleneck-port-la-long-beach/
Shipping Containers That Spent Weeks Aboard Ships Stuck At Ports Now Being Dumped In Nearby Neighborhoods
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/10/18/cargo-ship-bottleneck-port-la-long-beach/