Oh good grief, this is just pathetic.
Earlier this week we were seeing members of the Biden Administration and more loudly, members of the media crowing about the reduction in the number of ships waiting to unload at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.
Here's the rest of the story from India's BloombergQuint, 02:09 PM IST, 04 Dec 2021:
U.S. Ship Logjam Stretching Far Into Pacific Is Longer Than Ever.
The number of container ships headed for the busiest U.S. port complex has risen to close to 100 under a new counting method, underscoring the magnitude of the economy-restraining logjam that the Biden administration is trying to help alleviate.
The backup outside the adjacent ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, involves 96 container carriers, up from 86 on Nov. 16, when a new queuing system took effect and dozens of arriving ships stayed outside the official area to be counted, according to the Marine Exchange of Southern California. The revised measure released late Friday includes those eastbound vessels farther out in the Pacific.
Just when it looked like the bottleneck was easing -- the previous official tally was 41 ships in the queue as of Thursday -- the latest numbers confirm that the most visible symbol of the U.S.’s overwhelmed supply chains is still likely months away from being cleared. The average wait for ships was 20.8 days as of Friday, almost a week longer than a month ago, according to the L.A.’s Wabtec Port Optimizer.
The revised way of counting ships bound for L.A.-Long Beach divides them into a couple categories: 40 vessels that are either anchored in designated spots plus those “loitering” within 40 miles of the ports, and another 56 outside that perimeter, many of which have slowed their speed on the voyage from Asia that typically takes at least two weeks. So the line has gotten longer both in number of ships and distance....
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