![]() While smaller businesses get caught-up in the southern California port snarls, larger companies are coming up with alternatives to avoid the twin hubs. Southern California has some 2 billion square feet of nearly full warehouse space. Trucks unload goods at a warehouse in Redlands. Containers “just keep coming in and coming in,” Martinez added. The 54-year-old says the majority-Hispanic community has been grappling with truck traffic since at least the ports began expanding a decade ago, but that the ongoing supply-chain issues have made things worse. “It’s like the Wild West,” said Gina Martinez, co-chair of the Wilmington Neighborhood Council. In Wilmington, a blue-collar community located in the ports’ backyard, more than 400 illegal parking citations have been issued so far in November, according to the Los Angeles Port Police.īut residents say the citations, which range between $73 and $98, aren’t enough. Sometimes, truckers will go as far as abandoning containers and chassis in those same streets. As a result, heavy-duty trucks often drive by residences and schools to avoid the congestion. Three decades later, the corridor can’t fully accommodate the thousands of trucks that navigate the region every week. Truck congestion during the wait to enter and exit the Port of Los Angeles. At the same time, chassis are also scarce, with many stuck under empty containers, while tariffs have made it more difficult to import new ones from overseas. is currently lacking about 80,000 drivers, according to the American Trucking Associations. A Shortage of Chassis Means Containers Can’t MoveĪ shortage of truckers and chassis is also making matters worse. The last time contracts were discussed in 2014, West Coast ports faced months of slowdowns that only got resolved when the White House got involved.įor now, the union says it’s “fully focused” on moving cargo quickly and safely, Bloomberg reported earlier this month. ![]() The more than 9,000 longshoremen, clerks and foremen working at the twin ports are on the front-line of the supply chain, having moved almost 17 million twenty-foot equivalent units so far in 2021.īut with International Longshore and Warehouse Union contracts expiring next summer, negotiations could throw a wrench in plans to clear the backlogs. The San Pedro Bay ports generate more than 170,000 jobs in the cities of Los Angeles and Long Beach alone and almost 3 million positions countrywide. Photographer: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images ![]() A container is offloaded from ship to yard truck at the Port of Los Angeles. ![]()
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