![]() ![]() I’m not a Big Government guy, but there are critical times when Big Government can pitch in. Anyway, the extra travel time – particularly if Panama isn’t an option – would only add to the country’s growing consumer goods delays and shortages. Please, someone in Los Angeles, point out to me which one of these problems is the fault of the carriers? While it’s nice that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is opening his state’s ports for extra business, the Panama Canal can only accommodate so much west-to-east traffic. Customs facilities are overwhelmed as are the local railheads. California’s AB-5 anti-gig-worker law makes it difficult for independent truckers to drive in California, even when their rigs meet the new emissions standards. Another is that California’s emissions standards prevent older (but still cleaner-running) semis from operating in the state just when they need every truck they can get on the road. One reason is that the LA ports still haven’t managed to get their operations up to 24/7, even though everybody saw the problem coming from a mile away. Now imagine that the older boy fined the younger one $100 for each missed punch because that’s pretty much what Los Angeles ports are doing to carriers.Ĭarriers can’t unload their containers for a whole host of reasons. The shorter one will then try to hit the taller one – to no avail because his shorter arms just can’t get there. The older, bigger one will hold the younger, shorter one at arm’s length by his forehead. My sons, ages 15 and 11, like to play a familiar game. To show you just how wrong that is, allow me to use a down-home example. Containers moved by truck will have nine days before they’ll start paying, and containers moved by rail will have just three days. Together, the two account for 40% of the country’s seaborne imports.Ĭarriers will have to pay “$100 per day for each container lingering past a given timeline” starting on the first of the month. It’s a fine so pointless and wrong that, of course, Presidentish Joe Biden has chimed in with his support for it.Īccording to CNBC, the White House is “hopeful” that fines will “ease the intensifying logjam of cargo ships” waiting to unload at Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles. (PJMedia) – Los Angeles ports will fine cargo ships waiting to unload their goods in an attempt to relieve congestion that is as desperate as it is gobsmackingly stupid. ![]()
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