America’s Imports Are Stuck on Ships Floating Just Off Los Angeles
The giant container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for six days was freed Monday, but another bottleneck in the supply chain remains, this one in Southern California.
On Monday morning, 24 container ships with a combined maximum carrying capacity nearly 10 times that of the newly freed ship were anchored off the coast waiting for space at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, according to the Marine Exchange of Southern California, which keeps tabs on vessels and directs ship traffic.
The ships are carrying tens of thousands of boxes holding millions of dollars’ worth of washing machines, medical equipment, consumer electronics and other of the goods that make up global ocean trade, all of it idling in the waters in sight of docks that are jammed with still more containers.
Trade bottleneck has businesses waiting for goods; container ships sit anchored in California
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Supply bottlenecks leave ships stranded, businesses stymied
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