Dozens of ships are forced to anchor off
coast of New York as they wait to dock
in the country's second-largest port -
adding to US supply chain crunch which
has forced FedEx to reroute 600k packages
a day
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Ariel Zilber
,
Snejana Farberov
&
James Gordon
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
9/26/2021 3:49:12 AM
More than two dozen container ships appear to be stuck at sea miles off the south shore of Long Island, according to a maritime traffic monitoring website as more than 60 vessels wait to dock at two of the country’s largest ports on the West Coast.The logjam at the nation's three busiest ports comes as the economy reels from a supply chain crunch which as been exacerbated by a shortage of truck drivers. The situation has deteriorated to the point where supermarkets have been unable to stock their shelves with products while FedEx has had to reroute hundreds of thousands of packages.MarineTraffic, the global ship tracking site, shows
Reply 1 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 9/26/2021 4:06:04 AM (No. 926698)
Biden's American groceries and Big Box stores will soon resemble the Soviet GUM stores. Empty shelves galore. And if there is anything on the shelves, Biden's Inflation will make the items cost an arm and a leg. Welcome to Commie America.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mifla 9/26/2021 4:59:41 AM (No. 926710)
Was in my neighborhood grocery store yesterday. You could see the half empty shelves. Not typical for a Saturday. Biden needs to stop paying people not to work.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
The Remnants 9/26/2021 5:09:13 AM (No. 926717)
Why is there a shortest of truck drivers?
And I agree with poster #1. We are so conditioned nowadays to blame everything on COVID and question nothing. Probably what happens in all communist countries.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
HPmatt 9/26/2021 7:29:46 AM (No. 926752)
Our standing Saturday deliveries of Blue Apron, from FtWorth to DFW, were not delivered, or to the wrong block on our street, or even the next day, more than half the time.
This explains it, Fedex must have routed it through Baltimore or Long Beach to a Dallas address. I think their new motto is ‘It might absolutely get there in a day or two, if you’re lucky”
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Califedup 9/26/2021 7:42:56 AM (No. 926759)
Hmmm. Another one of these crises that seem to be popping up every day now and seems to be designed to use the fear weapon that has proven to be so effective during the phony Chinese Wuhan Bioweapon Flu pandemic, so that people will once again stream to the stores like mindless zombies and produce another wave of panic buying which will only exacerbate the so-called shortage of products like toilet paper and paper towels. Who knew that when food runs out the most important issue will be keeping your butt clean.
Costco limits purchases of certain items knowing full well that the weak minded among us will now race out to their stores in a frenzy of panic buying thereby boosting their sales overall. Great marketing strategy.
So why the back up at these ports when before there was none? The Ports could handle high volumes of cargo ships before.
Notice how these ports are located in commie states like New York and California and are controlled by the radical Longshoremen's Union? (By the way shouldn't they change their unwoke name to Longshore LBGTTW Union?)
Why blame the Chinese Wuhan Bioweapon Flu for this? Could the illegal communist death democrat Biden/Harris Regime and their Chinese overlords be causing this back up behind the scenes? Wouldn't put it past them.
All we get from the communist media is lies, lies, and more lies so we are supposed to believe this article? Who knows what to believe any more. One real fact is that someone is making an enormous amount of money over this port backup. Just think how these ships are stuffed with Cargo bought months ago at lower cost and are now sitting off shore waiting for prices to rise before off loading. Wonder how many of our congress scum have stocks in container companies.
Something really stinks about all of this port backup. Just in time for Christmas.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
red1066 9/26/2021 7:46:47 AM (No. 926765)
I find it hard to believe that truck drivers would be sitting out getting government checks rather than driving trucks. The amount of money trucking companies are offering to drivers far exceeds the amount they are getting from government checks. Same goes for dock workers. Something else is going on.
34 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
LoneVoice 9/26/2021 7:56:39 AM (No. 926774)
I'm sorry, if my employer institutes Biden's vaccine mandate I will be among the many truck drivers who will be fired. Biden has lost his patience with us. It's not like we're needed or anything.
/sarcasm
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Mirrors the situation reported off of Long Beach as well. Container ships full of goods that cannot be unloaded. We are seeing the same shortages of all kinds of grocery items that we have never seen the local stores run out of ever, and grocery prices are through the roof on everything.
Had enough yet, America?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lala 9/26/2021 8:15:07 AM (No. 926792)
Wouldn’t be such a huge problem if we weren’t addicted to cheap junk made by Chinese slave labor and made stuff here instead.
23 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
walcb 9/26/2021 8:47:37 AM (No. 926821)
I don't happen to believe shortages are the result of increased demand because we are returning to normalcy after the rona boloney. I call BS on this article.
9 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/26/2021 8:52:49 AM (No. 926827)
My motorcycle tires finally arrived from Japan - almost a month.
7 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
cgood 9/26/2021 8:54:15 AM (No. 926829)
My husband and I travel to our farm across the state every other weekend. We spend much of the trip on a major interstate - highway 70. Trucks are abundant on this road, but Friday evening we were amazed by the unusually HIGH number. Believe me, we have been making this trip for a long time and know the routine. While I realize this is anecdotal, it is surprising to read that there are actually fewer trucks on the road. We’ve grown accustomed to being lied to and it is hard not to be suspicious when reports run counter to your observations. I have to wonder about alternative explanations.
19 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Stencil 9/26/2021 9:01:42 AM (No. 926837)
A month, 11? I ordered a Honda mid-tine tiller, built only in Japan, back in April. Was told it might take six months . . . hope I live to see it.
11 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Krause 9/26/2021 11:18:04 AM (No. 926965)
biden's plan is working. Democrats are happy. Millions of jobs available, but joe is paying them so they won't go to work.
5 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 9/26/2021 11:31:26 AM (No. 926975)
Someone or some group behind the scenes is literally trying to destroy our country. They clearly have enough power to influence the Democrat/Marxist buffoons ruling us to do stupid things like open the borders, pull out of Afghanistan, ruin our military, and block our supply chain. The Democrat/Marxist sociopaths running our government are either too drunk with power to care or too stupid with greed to understand what they are doing. I suspect they also live in fear of disobeying their secret masters, who probably comprise the CCP in league with rich Soros type modern Nazis.
5 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Delilah 9/26/2021 11:41:09 AM (No. 926985)
I live near I77 in NE Ohio and see lots of trucks when I venture out onto that road and the stores here have no empty shelves. It might be that supplies are coming in through the port of Cleveland.
3 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 9/26/2021 11:57:36 AM (No. 927004)
Paying people to not work is literally sabotaging the economy.
5 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 9/26/2021 12:05:27 PM (No. 927014)
I’m in trucking. The lie about a driver shortage has been repeated for decades. There is a shortage of GOOD drivers, but I digress. Trucking is a feast or famine business. My personal belief is COVID shut down a lot of small companies due to a freight shortage. Now are those previous small company drivers working for bigger carriers? Most likely they are. I fully expect the Haitians and Afghans recently imported will be driving big rigs up and down our interstates very soon. Y’all be careful out there.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
paral04 9/26/2021 1:05:41 PM (No. 927081)
What happened to the drivers? Did they get told they needed unwanted vaccinations or are they all on UI benefits?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
chumley 9/26/2021 1:06:47 PM (No. 927084)
Stocking up is not weak minded as one poster put it. It is prudent. Those who stocked up on ammunition have it. Those with extra fuel can run their cars and generators. Those with a basement full of food will not starve.
Those who do the socially conscious thing will depend on others who did stock up. Good luck with that.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 9/26/2021 4:56:25 PM (No. 927279)
Maybe if we could make our own underwear in the U.S.
I have stated before that "we can't even make our own underwear here" before to make my feelings known about relying so much on imports. Sure enough, this story hits home. My underwear that I ordered from WalMart are being delayed by FedEx. I am not kidding.
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