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Chassis – the keystone to the solution
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Chassis – the keystone to the solution
Ships are stacking up on the West Coast because there is not enough room to unload more containers.
Container yards are backlogged in large part due to the a backlog of containers to load onto the rail for transport to the Heartland.
Trains are backed up for miles and miles waiting to be unloaded in the Heartland of the U.S., due to lack of space in the rail terminals.
Rail terminals are out of space because truckers are not pulling the containers out.
Truckers are not pulling the containers because they cannot get chassis to put the containers on.
Truckers cannot get chassis because they are sitting under empty containers.
Truckers cannot return empty containers because there is no space in the terminal.
Chassis shortages at every point of the U.S. inbound/outbound chain are the primary cause, yet no one in the government, the press, or even the Transportation trade publications is talking about it much.
LA/LB currently has over 100 ships waiting to unload over 540,000 containers. Peak port operating capacity handles about 18,000 containers per day, but they are nowhere near peak operations. If no more ships sailed to Los Angeles starting tomorrow, it would take 3 to 6 months to clear the ships out of LA/LB at the current pace.
They do not want to fix this problem.
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Wow. Great analysis.
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