From PYMNTS.com, November 17:
Supply Chain Woes Keep Coming as Average Wait Time Nears 17 Days
Container ships are still having a difficult time reaching ports in a timely manner, with the average wait time at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in California now sitting at almost 17 days, Bloomberg reported.
The queue was present both at anchor and in a holding zone, and efforts to clear it haven’t been working, according to the report. The queue ended up at 83 ships as of late Friday (Nov. 12), which was more than 81, the previous high from earlier the same week.
The economy has suffered from the damage to supply chains, the report stated. U.S. Port of Long Beach Executive Director Mario Cordero said every sector of the supply chain has reached capacity.
“We are trying to add capacity by searching for vacant land to store containers, expanding the hours of operation at terminals, and implementing a fee that will incentivize ocean carriers to pull their containers out of the port as soon as possible,” he said, per the report....
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Fortunately USA Today has taken it upon themselves, as fact-checkers par excellence, to totally and completely debunk the misinformation and outright falsehoods so rampant on right-wing sites:
The claim: An arrangement of cargo ships spelled out 'Let's go Brandon'
Our rating: False
We rate the claim that an arrangement of cargo ships spelled out "Let's go Brandon" FALSE, based on our research....
