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(Trends Wide) — Cargo ships are literally circling the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, waiting to unload household items and critical manufacturing supplies.
To visualize the recent supply chain bottleneck, Trends Wide has used location data transmitted by each container ship and collected by MarineTraffic.
In an animated video, dozens of cargo ships can be seen maneuvering in holding patterns 15 to 30 kilometers from the coast. Another group of boats is moored closer to shore. Container ships move into port only occasionally.
During the same period two years ago – the second full week of October 2019, before the covid-19 pandemic – data shows that ships easily enter and leave ports without delay.
Roughly 200,000 shipping containers were off the Los Angeles shoreline earlier this week, according to Gene Seroka, chief executive of the Port of Los Angeles. Seroka told Trends Wide that his workers were trying to move the goods out of the port as quickly as possible.
The congestion on the Californian coast led President Joe Biden to announce that the Port of Los Angeles would operate 24 hours a day, in line with the neighboring Port of Long Beach. The two ports handle 40% of the container traffic in the United States.
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