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Trading nations. >> demand is a key part of this supply chain issue. there is so much demand this holiday season. people are out spending. we're doing an enormous amount of online shopping. is the real issue that we've changed the way commerce works? people aren't going to shopping malls and out to restaurants like they were even a few years ago. >> steph it's not just one issue. we came out of covid-19 thinking we were moving and then the delta variant and now omicron. online buying has doubled over the last 15 months what it took a decade to build in the united states. we're still seeing som...

Freeway traffic into fibrous. >> in the water and outcome of that traffic piles up at america's largest port, a recor 109 ships wait to offload their cargo. forcing the rest is simply drif into waters while upside san pedro bay. and the supply chain, right now there's no evidence it has spread. >> it's basically placating the public due to saying that were actually doing something. >> a shortage of warehouse workers is one problem, the other, a lack of test is to hau containers. >> the extra for five hours tha the ports are going to be open, they can be empty in the extra time they're doing he...

Let's go to one case in point example. the ya ming reef, it left china on september 5th, arrived here 15 days later on september 20th. it did not dock until october tenth, it waited outside the port longer than the actual trip from china. >> it is like compressing 10 lanes of freeway traffic into five. we are setting records. productivity per vessel is still the best in the world. we have to absorb and digest that cargo into the american supply chain. getting in sync with the railroads, truckers and warehouses and store fronts is the challenge ahead of us. >> getting that 24-7 operation in syn...

Produce more of them in the united states, which is not a short-term proposition. >> bill: thank you, rich edson. something to watch from the state department today. >> dana: let's keep talking about it. south carolina ports are managing to avoid the supply chain issues. here to talk about is the president and ceo of the south carolina port authority. we don't think about the ports because all of our stuff is always there when we need it. now we're dealing with this issue. i want you to listen to the ports of los angeles executive director explain what is happening out there. watch. >> it's li...

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