Day after day, Walter Diaz, an immigrant truck driver from El Salvador, steers his 18-wheeler toward the giant ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Notably, throughout the four-month uproar, the ports’ 13,000 truckers were all but absent from the debate. What with high labor costs and costly environmental regulations, the Los Angeles and Long Beach complex “is the most expensive in the U.S.,” Maersk’s Lagaay said. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)Cargo would move faster if terminals were willing to pay dockworkers for a third shift, he added. Eventually, they contend, robots will slow down, rather than speed up, cargo logistics overall, causing the Southern California ports to lose business.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 07, 2019 14:02 UTC