For the past 22 years, the Port of Los Angeles has been the busiest container port in North America. But for the past three months, the Port of New York and New Jersey has been No. 1.
the remaining weeks of the holiday season,” said Jonathan Gold, Vice President for Supply Chain and Customs Policy at the National Retail Federation in a statement. “The uncertainty [is what] retailers and other shippers are afraid of. They don’t want to be stuck in a situation where there could be a disruption because of the labor situation or something else,” Gold explained to CNN.
Goods became stuck off the coast of California sitting on a record 109 container ships in January, waiting for weeks to offload at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Retailers and importers cannot afford that kind of delay — and started shifting their supply chain routes to other US ports.
“Despite this flood of cargo — [it’s] been handled extraordinarily well. We expect that to continue,” said Cotton.With Oakland A’s future uncertain, city to spend big on transit improvements around the proposed ballpark
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