I remember visiting a port in Cartagena (Colombia) well before the pandemic where they gave us a presentation highlighting that due to the inefficiencies of Ame

I remember visiting a port in Cartagena (Colombia) well before the pandemic where they gave us a presentation highlighting that due to the inefficiencies of American ports, ports nearby the Panama Canal can do business simply by transporting containers from Panamax ships to smaller ships simply because American ports can't process as many containers. The presenter seemed proud that Cartagena was able to unload and reload more ships as Miami or LA/Long Beach in a given day. The reason they said was due to automation and "forward looking technologies", and said that American ports were riddled with unions and refusals to automate. It seems like this has been a long time coming.