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> He’s not allowed by the city of Long Beach zoning code to store empty containers more than 2 high in his truck yard. If he violates this code they’ll shut dow

> He’s not allowed by the city of Long Beach zoning code to store empty containers more than 2 high in his truck yard. If he violates this code they’ll shut down his yard altogether. Anyone here surprised? The little things add up, multiply this code by the hundreds of others and you have a supply shortage.

thephyber 5y ago
It’s not a million little government regulations that is causing the majority of the supply chain kinks. China was the only country working full speed after the Wuhan lockdown for about a year. The entire world bought masses of PPG and ventilators in addition to our normal plastic consumerism widgets. China sent tons of full containers to the rest of the world but those containers haven’t returned to China. Everything else is a symptom of some local issue due to a region or industry being host to a disease outbreak or being host to a supply/demand mismatch with either containers or chassis. Even that distribution lot would not need containers stacked above 2 high if the distribution channels downstream of it were not similarly overloaded.
- GaryTang 5y ago
  Mayor of Long Beach thinks otherwise.
  - thephyber 5y ago
    I’m happy that the Mayor of LB was responsive. To be objective, it cost him basically no political capital to agree to change the policy temporarily. It is the lowest of the low hanging fruit and perhaps the only easy step for that actor to take. I was careful to distinguish “the majority” in my assessment. I view the filled warehouses downstream of the ports and the occupied trailer chassis they are occupying as the majority of the problem. These warehouses cause back pressure to the ports. The only reason raising the LB container stack depth from 2 to 4 only matters because those lots are buffers between the ports and distributors/retailers, but those buffers are full. There are a handful of other problems, both downstream of distributors and upstream of the LA/LB ports which cause this change to be effectively a small lever.

thephyber 5y ago

It’s not a million little government regulations that is causing the majority of the supply chain kinks. China was the only country working full speed after the Wuhan lockdown for about a year. The entire world bought masses of PPG and ventilators in addition to our normal plastic consumerism widgets. China sent tons of full containers to the rest of the world but those containers haven’t returned to China. Everything else is a symptom of some local issue due to a region or industry being host to a disease outbreak or being host to a supply/demand mismatch with either containers or chassis. Even that distribution lot would not need containers stacked above 2 high if the distribution channels downstream of it were not similarly overloaded.

GaryTang 5y ago
Mayor of Long Beach thinks otherwise.
- thephyber 5y ago
  I’m happy that the Mayor of LB was responsive. To be objective, it cost him basically no political capital to agree to change the policy temporarily. It is the lowest of the low hanging fruit and perhaps the only easy step for that actor to take. I was careful to distinguish “the majority” in my assessment. I view the filled warehouses downstream of the ports and the occupied trailer chassis they are occupying as the majority of the problem. These warehouses cause back pressure to the ports. The only reason raising the LB container stack depth from 2 to 4 only matters because those lots are buffers between the ports and distributors/retailers, but those buffers are full. There are a handful of other problems, both downstream of distributors and upstream of the LA/LB ports which cause this change to be effectively a small lever.