![]() “Then, releasing everything in October they brag about the surge in 4th quarter spending and the robust economy they’ve created.” “If you want to put a sinister twist on this, imagine a government putting a choke hold on goods entering the U.S.,” the post says. Mandate,” one said.Īnother post links to the same image, which it says is a screenshot from a tracking app. Comments on the post picked up on that unfounded claim, sensing a coordinated plan behind a map of offshore ships. One Facebook post says the Biden administration is “orchestrating” product shortages by denying foreign ships’ entry into ports around the U.S. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8Īppeared in the October 22, 2022, print edition as 'Container-Ship Bottleneck In Southern California Ends.Container ships are anchored by the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles as they wait to offload on Sept. Write to Paul Berger at ©2022 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. West Coast had declined 84% from a year earlier to $2,720. Last week, the average cost to ship a container from Asia to the U.S. West Coast exceeded $20,000, a sixfold increase from a year earlier, according to the Freightos Baltic Index. toward a four-decade high.īy September 2021, the average cost for shipping a container from Asia to the U.S. The backups delayed deliveries of furniture, appliances and household goods to consumers and drove up ocean shipping rates to record prices, which helped push inflation in the U.S. By January 2022, only 31% of container ships arrived at ports on time, down from about 70% before the pandemic, according to Sea-Intelligence. ports, and seaports in Europe and Asia, as delays cascaded across shipping and tied up vessels as companies sought space to move their goods. It was amazing,” he said.īackups also hit other U.S. “You could see containers piled up everywhere. Said that at one point he surveyed the scene by helicopter from the port complex to Ontario, Calif., nearly 60 miles from the coast. The queue swelled to dozens of ships, and shipping containers spilled out from the overfilled ports as Americans stuck at home under Covid-19 restrictions ordered massive volumes of household goods, office equipment and electronics that spurred a 20% surge in imports in 2021. 15, 2020, when the Marine Exchange reported five ships were queuing to unload at the Los Angeles-Long Beach complex, an unusual number compared with the one or two ships that sometimes have to wait. The Southern California backup began on Oct. With demand slowing, shipping lines have canceled between 26% to 31% of their sailings across the Pacific over the coming weeks, according to Sea-Intelligence, a Denmark-based shipping data group, signaling that carriers are preparing for a continued drop in bookings. in September declined by 11% from a year earlier and by 12.4% from August. But in recent months, big-box retailers have canceled many orders after a rush of orders earlier in the year and shifting consumer buying patterns left the merchants overstocked.ĭescartes Datamyne, a data analysis group owned by supply-chain software company Ports including Savannah, Ga., Houston and New York and New Jersey have coped with backups triggered by the diverted cargo. August imports fell 12% from last year, a steep drop during the traditional peak shipping season. The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach together handled 686,133 loaded import containers in September, down 18% from a year earlier and the lowest level since June 2020, according to port figures. ![]() WSJ’s Paul Berger explains what’s contributing to the congestion and what impact it’s having on the economy. Container-ship backlogs from New York to Houston are extending strains on troubled supply chains in the U.S.
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