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Democrats Try To Hide Worsening Congestion At California Ports
At recent press conferences, Biden administration and California officials
bragged about a 37 percent
drop in the number of containers stacked more than eight days on land at Los Angeles and Long Beach; a 20 percent
reduction in the number of container ships spending more than nine days at the docks; and a
more than 40 percent drop in the number of ships waiting within 40 miles of both ports.
Thus, they proclaim, “Our solutions are working.” Each boast is a half-truth. The whole truth is: The container pile-up
has moved elsewhere and increased. Ships wait longer to berth. The ship queue has
moved farther offshore.
The pileup has moved offshore and to temporary storage sites on land. Private companies
set up temporary sites in recent weeks. Containers shuttled there are omitted from the ports’ official count of landed containers waiting to be hauled across the United States.
Even more containers wait offshore. They sit on a Los Angeles and Long Beach ship queue that increased 30 percent between late October and early December. Late October was when authorities announced they would fine companies for containers lingering too long on land. A queued vessel is defined as waiting to tie up to a dock.
Thirty percent more waiting vessels equates to about 150,000 more 20-foot containers floating offshore. That 150,000 is several times the contemporaneous decrease in containers stacked on land.
Pouring salt into the wound, the 150,000 additional floating containers wait longer, as do all other floating containers. Wait times more than doubled between mid-October and early December, from about 11 days towards 24 days.
