“The two-week delay coming to Los Angeles versus the Hueneme routing was going to cause less headache for the customers," Mr. Parker said. The choice highlighted how shippers looking to avoid bottlenecks at major gateways by diverting goods through alternate ports face tough tradeoffs and new questions. Smaller ports don’t have dozens of ships stacked up off the coast waiting for berth space, as do Los Angeles and the neighboring Port of Long Beach, Calif. The capacity at those ports pales against the operations at Los Angeles and Long Beach. The bottleneck has hovered at between 60 and 70 vessels this fall and reached a record 79 container ships on Thursday, according to the Marine Exchange of Southern California.

Source: Mint October 24, 2021 20:54 UTC