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Pushing for more data sharingment a lot of things have to go right but the announcement these ports would go 24/7 that's a big part of it >> bret: the announcement came this week, jen psaki from the white house briefing room said it had been worked on for months but you could see this coming down the road for a while, couldn't you, mr. secretary? >> well, yeah. i mean, let's work backward from this week's announcement. la announced that it was going 24/7 but a few weeks earlier, long beach had announced their pilot to do that. if you can imagine, a port that massive flipping to 24/7 is not som...

$17 billion for ports alone are part of the plan that the president has led on and i have been proud to work on. just to be clear, we've been doing a lot of tactical work too. earlier this week i was with the president when he announced the port of l.a. is going to 24/7 operations. this reason this is important is that l.a. and long beach, which are both making this change, just those two ports represent 40% of the container traffic coming into this country. a lot of americans might have imagined it operated 24/7 but it has not worked that way in the past and it was not a simple thing to do bu...

Parked it backed up for miles and for months. the white house meeting today, with some of the country's largest shipping carriers and authorities at the ports of los angeles and long beach. announcing operations here will run 24/7, to ease the massive backlog. >> today's announcement has the potential to be a game-changer. i say potential. because all of these squads won't move by themselves. >> the complex delays that the nation's busiest ports, accounting for 40% of than container traffic, affects consumers from coast to coast. bins filled with everyday products, from electronics, to apparel...

Up for miles and for months the white house meeting today with some of the country's largest shipping carriers and authorities at the ports of los angeles and long beach, announcing operations here will run 24/7 to ease the massive backlog. >> today's announcement has the potential to be a game changer. i say potential because all of these goods won't move by themselves. >> reporter: the complex delays at the nation's busiest ports accounting for 40% of the country's container traffic affects consumers from coast to coast. bins filled with every day products from electronics to apparel may not...

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