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We are in greece, where a chinese state-owned shipping company, cosco owns a majority of this port and business is booming. the port across athens there is as ancient as the city itself. we werent allowed to film at the port cosco didnt respond to our request for an interview, so we took to the sea a chinese cosco ship is waiting to dock another is unloading this port is one of many major infrastructure projects carried out by chinese companies, always with the backing of beijing a good thing to...

Okay. we are waiting for president biden to address the problems plaguing the global supply chain, meaning the problems weve all had in getting everyday goods. this is an issue that is growing more urgent with the holidays around the corner and some analysts warn that the worst is yet to come. >> dozens of full cargo ships are right now clogging the california coast because they cant be unloaded fast enough. and on land, theres a shortage of dock workers and truck drivers to get the goods to you...

Wars, we certainly, we dont have good records for the last pandemic of 1918, but it was predictable that after any kind of national emergency, youve got pent up demand, and supply shocks all over the system. >> yeah. you know, the other direction, comment of bringing them in sends me is that once they get into port, theres a shortage of dock workers. theres also a shortage of truck drivers and i know from reading your opinion piece in the guardian this morning is that you dont think there is a l...

These hours... >> reporter: clearing the backlog may take months. it could be the end of 2022 before things get back to normal-- normal meaning a ship enters the port, unloads and departs with no delays. >> we need to see further downstream logistics. they all have to fire at the same time for it to become very efficient. >> reporter: theyre not going to be able to beach the magic wand to make this go away. >> there is no magic wand. its a huge bottleneck. >> reporter: at the end of the supply c...

In l.a. 16 days. the point is during the pandemic demand fell like a rock and production. now we want stuff, we dont have the capacity to match it. >> were seeing a 4 times increase for containers coming in. other he not good news for any schipper. great news if you are an ocean carrier or carrier truck provider. >> supply chains talking about planes, ships, forklifts, dock workers, trucks. basically every link to get you the stuff that you want. why is it costing more? three years ago a contain...

The containers. the point is during the pandemic manufacturing plunged, supplies went down. now you have the surge in demand and we dont have the capacity to handle it. >> so now this congestion is rippling to salve anna, east coast ports and northern ports as well. it is rippling out and they are having back logs now which makes sense because companies are always going to try to find the best way to get to the market. >> so supply chain is really a fancy term for planes and trains and ships and...

Everything is going up. >> the fact is, i cant imagine what it must be like in california or georgia with these huge ports in florida and all the ships with fall in containers, the dock workers cant get work in the truck drivers evidently are not there to show up. these products that need to be sold that have already been paid for and that ship has got to be empty, and they would not be saying for everyone with two years, how is this happening and how did they fix it, yet this president brings i...

♪ >> infections, hospitalizations and death in turn it means a stronger economy. one economist called vaccine requirements the most powerful economic stimulus ever enenacted. when you see headlines and reports of mass firings and hundreds of people losing their jobs, look at the bigger story. jillian: president biden is pushing for vaccine mandates regardless of the layoffs they cause. todd: here to react fox news contributor lara trump. that statement we just heard president biden issue seems...

Mass firings of line workers, of dock workers, we have container ships that we dont have enough people right now to offload all of the supplies into the united states. they are backed up for miles in the ocean. and because of what joe biden wants to do, we are never getting all this stuff off of those ships. the most upsetting part of this is at the same time, as americans are having to decide between vaccination and their job in many respects, we are letting millions, thats right, millions of i...

They told me that the president was encouraged by his conversations and will continue them tomorrow, david. >> rachel scott again tonight. thank you, rachel. we have been reporting here on the dozens of cargo ships waiting off both coasts. tonight, the warning about whats to come and what were seeing in stores already. and the advice we heard for shoppers going into the holiday season, it got our attention today. heres abcs kaylee hartung. >> reporter: tonight, empty shelves lining more stores...