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2021-09-24 Economy
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[Buy American] The reason your Christmas is going to cost more this year: Huge backlog of SIXTY TWO container ships wait to dock at America's biggest port as global supply chain crunch hits home
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - The port complex of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which moves 40 percent of containers in the US, currently has 62 cargo ships waiting to enter the port
- The backup was brought on by a combination of it being peak shipping period and a pandemic-induced buying boom and labor shortage
- The ports serve as the entry point for a third of imports to the US, and are the main import point for goods coming from China
- The west coast ports have faced traffic since August, when a then record-breaking 44 container ships were stuck off the coast due to similar disruptions
- The Long Beach port is now on pace to break it's all-time record and process than 9 million container units this year, almost a million more units than in 2020
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Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-24 00:00||
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