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STRUGGLE AT THE SEAPORTS
Labor shortage at center of delays, stagnation, freight carriers say
By Zeke Jennings
FGN Correspondent
On Jan. 6, 2022, there were a record 105
shipping vessels anchored or loitering off
the coast of Southern California waiting
for openings to dock at the ports of Long
Beach and Los Angeles.
On Jan. 6, 2021, there were 32.
Through the first eight months of 2021,
having 32 vessels waiting was on the high
side for the Southern California ports.
Normally, it was in the teens or 20's.
About the end of August is when numbers
soared and breaking records became a
common occurrence.
Los Angeles and Long Beach do more
volume than any other seaports in the U.S.
They are followed by New York-New Jersey
and Savannah, Georgia, but the situation
isn't much better at either of those ports,
nor are they at Seattle or Charleston, South
Carolina.
It's not just a struggle to get goods in
and out of U.S. seaports, it's a struggle to
do so anywhere in the world, including
through the major Chinese ports, Hong
Kong and Rotterdam, Netherlands -
Europe's largest
port.
Moving goods
domestically
throughout the U.S.
also has become
problematic. During
the recent Potato
Expo in Anaheim,
California,
Tracey Chow, a
government affairs
specialist for Western Growers, said
members began complaining of shipping
problems in late 2020, starting with nut
growers. Things have only snowballed
from there.
" Now that we're a year into it, essentially
every commodity has been affected, " Chow
said. " Before it was just tree nuts, then it was
citrus, then it was stone fruits (and other
specialty crops). Now all the non-specialty
crop commodities have been affected (i.e.
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