LA shipping terminal operators say Biden's 24/7 edict won't work

[corbe]

LA shipping terminal operators say Biden's 24/7 edict won't work

by Tori Richards, Investigative Reporter
October 21, 2021 05:27 PM

The operators of Los Angeles-area ports say President Joe Biden’s round-the-clock cargo mandate is not realistic, according to a report .

The president recently called for the shipping hubs to go into overdrive to ease the supply-chain crunch that has more than a hundred loaded freighters anchored off the coast. But 24/7 operations would cost the ports huge money in overtime, and the owners aren't eager to eat the expense.

“I don’t see how the terminals are going to be reimbursed. It’s big money,” Ed DeNike, president of SSA Containers, whose parent company Carrix operates three terminals in Long Beach, told the Journal of Commerce.

Standard terminal hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. with some weekday nights until 3 a.m. Work slows significantly on Saturdays and shuts down completely on Sundays, the Washington Examiner discovered . Fully opening the terminals, including a 3 a.m. to 8 a.m. shift, is expensive, and truckers likely wouldn’t show up, the Journal reported.

DeNike said delivering containers to truckers on a graveyard shift costs $200 per container versus $35 to $40 during the first two shifts.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/la-shipping-terminal-operators-say-bidens-24-7-edict-wont-work

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Biden can fix it of course with one more 'C'mon Man!"

[The_Reader_David]

Of course it won't work.  The problem with the ports in California is that the government of California has destroyed the state's trucking industry with "green" edicts.

[Fishrrman]

Long term, the only solution that is going to "work" is to construct new shipping terminals on the East Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico in the red states, and to BYPASS California completely.

The time for one or more red states to get on this is... NOW.

Neither Oregon nor Washington state (both deep blue) can be considered reliable in the future, as well. Folks in the red states had better wake up to this reality sooner than later...

[skeeter]

Long term, the only solution that is going to "work" is to construct new shipping terminals on the East Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico in the red states, and to BYPASS California completely.

The time for one or more red states to get on this is... NOW.

Neither Oregon nor Washington state (both deep blue) can be considered reliable in the future, as well. Folks in the red states had better wake up to this reality sooner than later...

Or... red states can invade CA, hang the greasy bastrid by his heels, and take control of the port facilities themselves.

[jafo2010]

Easy solution.  End receiving ships in stinking California.  Problem solved!!!

And Biden solving anything will be nothing short of a miracle, and his phony derelict *ss has never had anything to do with anything positive in history.  Dumber than a box of rocks, and I feel bad insulting rocks that way.  They serve some purpose, Biden serves no one but his own pockets and that of his criminal family!!!!

[corbe]

   Or just give up as a supplier and hire provocateurs' to torch it and let the insurance companies figure it out.


https://youtu.be/B_0esMdA074

[libertybele]

Easy solution.  End receiving ships in stinking California.  Problem solved!!!

And Biden solving anything will be nothing short of a miracle, and his phony derelict *ss has never had anything to do with anything positive in history.  Dumber than a box of rocks, and I feel bad insulting rocks that way.  They serve some purpose, Biden serves no one but his own pockets and that of his criminal family!!!!

 

[Hoodat]

DeNike said delivering containers to truckers on a graveyard shift costs $200 per container versus $35 to $40 during the first two shifts.

Do you really expect a person who has never held a private sector job to understand the significance of that?

[Hoodat]

Easy solution.  End receiving ships in stinking California.  Problem solved!!!

Another solution.  Stop buying stuff from China.