Thomas Curwen/Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES The sea is calm tonight. The breeze is light. An easy swell rolls beneath the Delta Teresa, a tugboat idling at the entrance to Long Beach Harbor.
In the darkness where sky and water meet, nearly three dozen tankers and containers ships ride at anchor. L
LO S A N G E L E S A Southern California tugboat’s crew members have had a front-row seat to a world economy thrown off balance by the pandemic: ships anchored offshore, containers waiting to be offloaded, so much stuff without a home.
Their work is but one link out of hundreds in the global supply chain: Each link is dependent upon all the others for the success of the whole.