Biden to make the supply chain crisis worse
Biden hopes fines on lingering cargo ships ease congestion at major U.S. ports
The Biden administration is hopeful new fines imposed on carriers at the nation’s busiest port complex will abate the intensifying logjam of cargo ships.
The twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach announced Monday that containers moved by trucks will have nine days before fines start accruing and containers scheduled to move by rail will have three days.
In accordance with these deadlines, carriers will be charged $100 for each lingering container per day starting Nov. 1.
But the problem isn’t the ship’s, it’s the lack of trucks, truckers, yard space to store empty containers, dock space for full containers being offloaded, etc. The bottleneck is on land but the ships will pay the fine.
This is a restaurant charging you more because the kitchen is slow.
You know that will happen?
Ships will leave and find other ports or just stop coming to the US.
This isn’t a fix, this is compounding a disaster.
Honestly, I want Governors DeSantis and Abbott to send people to Panama to help support canal operations and open the Ports of Miami and Houston to Pacific traffic.
It would take less time to navigate through the Panama canal to Miami than to wait for an open spot in California.
That’s what a leader would do.
Biden is just going to fuck it up.