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I don't know what qualifies as "huge", but around $300B worth of cargo passes through the Port of Los Angeles every year. And other ports are also reporting sl
by Johnny555 7y ago
I don't know what qualifies as "huge", but around $300B worth of cargo passes through the Port of Los Angeles every year. And other ports are also reporting slowdowns.
It takes about 2 weeks for a cargo ship to reach the USA from China, but it can take 30 days or longer to get a shipment through the entire cargo chain from start to finish, so even if things are recovering on the China side, we're still in for at least a few more weeks of disruption.
And since cargo is stacking up on both sides, it'll probably take months to get everything back on track.
- hogFeast 7y agoThe top port does something like 4x the volume. Los Angeles is in the top 20 (just #17) but it isn't large. I just told you what the volume is (you can check for yourself, all of this is public information) for other ports. It won't take months. That is just not factually accurate, it takes a day or two to load the largest container ships, and they load more than one at once. It isn't "stacking up", that isn't how ports work...if you can't get space, you don't stack your stuff at the port, you just don't send it.
- ceejayoz 7y agoA 5,000 page book is still large if there's a 20,000 page book out there.