Supply chain crisis highlighted in tweetstorm on LA ports
- A tweetstorm about the congestion at LA’s ports has focused attention on the supply chain crisis.
- COVID-19 played a big role in creating the disruption that is dragging on the global economy.
- Governments in the US and other countries are stepping up efforts to remove the bottlenecks.
Flexport founder Ryan Petersen rented a boat in October 2021 and took a close look at the logjam choking the two busiest container ports in the US – Los Angeles and Long Beach. After a three-hour tour, he lit up Twitter with ideas to clear the bottleneck that’s disrupting America’s supply chain.
The main problem he found was the port terminals had no room for new containers in their yards. As a result, more than 70 ships carrying a total of 500,000 containers were left idling in San Pedro Bay, waiting for space to open up. And the back-up was only going to get worse, he said.
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