Let’s face it.
Joe Biden doesn’t have the technical skills to make a difference, but he is a good at proving himself wrong about almost all things.
Someone will have to explain to me his recent move, which makes no sense.
Biden had previously stated that he wanted to address the supply-chain crisis.
His first move — saying that the Port of Los Angeles was going to operate 24/7 – hasn’t been achieved yet and hasn’t seemed to do much of anything to change the situation. Indeed, after he said that, there were a record number of ships waiting to unload at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach — 100 ships.
But now, he’s saying they’re going to be fining the ships who are stuck in the logjam.
CNBC
Los Angeles Ports and Long Beach have announced Monday that container moves by truck will take place for 9 days and by rail, 3 days respectively.
Conforming to these deadlines carriers will be charged $100 per lingering containers each day beginning Nov. 1.
“The terminals are running out of space, and this will make room for the containers sitting on those ships at anchor,” explained Port of Long Beach Executive Director Mario Cordero in a statement announcing the measure.
CNBC says that Biden’s administration hopes new carrier fines will end the logjam.
Biden wants to make sure that the companies don’t get stuck in a ditch without a paddle.
Isn’t this just punishing the victims of this situation, in part created by mandates and other government restrictions as well as other things which they had no control over? What is the best way to speed this up? Their cargo still needs to be taken care of. They have to decide what they are going to do with their cargo. Toss it in the ocean?
You can also increase costs, which have spiraled out of control, for businesses, products, and consumers. So, the immediate response from ships/companies would be stop shipping as much, increasing all the shortages and likely having new ones that we haven’t had yet. How is that possible? Biden also does it right as we head into holiday season. This is a terrible mess.
The Biden ‘solution’ to things always seems to be: do something to cover it up or hide it, not actually resolve it. It is not his desire to solve the problem, but to remove the images of waiting ships.
We didn’t have enough Afghan allies to help us evacuate. Grab random ‘at risk’ Afghans and throw them on the planes to pump up the numbers. Have thousands of illegal aliens trapped under a Del Rio bridge? Then, focus on the fake story of Border Patrol whipping them before releasing them across the country. You are a poop! No more problem. The problem was not solved for the next generation of thousands.
They seem to have discovered a fact: the shortage of containers space is partly to blame for the problem.
Ron DeSantis, Florida governor offered Florida ports as an option. But Biden apparently doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge that offer.
There’s also another idea posed by Ryan Petersen, chief executive officer of logistics company Flexport. Ryan Petersen said that he went on a boat tour of the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and saw how there were so many containers. They can’t bring in new ones until the old ones get unloaded.
Long Beach/LA ports remain at a standstill. We saw just a few containers unloaded in our 3 hour-long loop of the port complex.
— Ryan Petersen (@typesfast) October 22, 2021
Then, how did he solve the problem?
Bloomberg
Petersen recommended the construction of a temporary yard near the government and the deployment of National Guard- or military-owned container chassis for the port. The facility would be used to ease the situation. Petersen also asked President Joe Biden to sign executive orders to override zoning regulations to permit truck yards to keep more empty containers.
Petersen compared the supply-chain crisis currently facing ports and the potential for them to shut down with the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., which led to the Great Recession.
“With Lehman the government could just print tons of money to flood the banks with liquidity,” Petersen said. “Here we need real world solutions.”
Unfortunately, we have Joe Biden who’s not good at real world solutions. #EmptyShelvesJoe will make things worse.
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