President Biden will unveil a plan today to try to ease supply chain bottlenecks. kaylatausche has the latest.
In an aerial view, container ships are anchored by the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles as they wait to offload on September 20, 2021 near Los Angeles, California."Ordinary people and businesses are feeling the effects of these delays and bottlenecks. It makes it challenging to get products on the shelves, and for goods to be delivered to the doorstep," the administration official said.
Experts say the massive bottleneck at the California port complex is the result of a combination of factors, both domestic and global. Among them, a pandemic-related surge in demand for durable goods in the United States, an outdated domestic freight and rail system, factory shutdowns in places like China and Vietnam, andConsumers are being advised to buy Christmas presents in October, for example, if they want to be sure to get a particular item.
Among retailers, both large and small companies are having an extremely difficult time securing cargo containers to transport goods to the United States from Asia, where the lion's share of consumer products are manufactured. Pete Buttigieg, U.S. secretary of transportation, right, and Bill Doyle, executive director of the Maryland Port Administration, during a tour of the Seagirt marine terminal at the Port of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., on Thursday, July 29, 2021.Skyrocketing costs are also part of the problem.
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