Los Angeles and Long Beach are in the middle of negotiating new contracts for 22,000 dockworkers a protracted negotiation-or disagreement-could add to delays if workers engage in actions like work slowdowns or stoppages to strengthen their negotiating position. That berth time is twice the average of 2021. 359 by the World Bank and S&P) meant that a container ship was spending an average of 10.9 days at berth, according to a recent report from shipping tracker Windward and Sea Intelligence. In the first week of 2022, congestion at ports like Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Oakland (ranked No. Labor shortages and a lack of warehouse space are also limiting their ability to handle more cargo. Record consumer spending in 2021 meant a major increase in maritime traffic beyond what the ports on the West Coast could handle, leading to congestion as ships waited to unload their cargo. Those two ports also handle 42% of all container trade from Asia. According to the ranking, the West Coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are the world’s least efficient. The World Bank report measured the total time a ship spent at port across 370 locations worldwide in 2021, including time ships spent waiting offshore for a free berth. are the world’s least efficient, and are already struggling to handle the cargo they’ve got. According to a new report released by the World Bank and S&P Global Market Intelligence, ports on the Pacific coast of the U.S. The port had about 260,000 20-foot containers waiting to be shipped in April, according to data from Drewry Shipping Consultants. Shanghai officials are targeting June 1 for fully lifting the city’s strictest lockdown measures, and as controls loosen, the city’s port will begin to work through a backlog of exports.īut greater loading from Shanghai will mean greater unloading in ports on the U.S. On Thursday, Shanghai officials said that daily container throughput in the city’s port, the world’s largest, is back to 93.5% of normal levels, as the city eases out of COVID lockdowns that have lasted over seven weeks and snarled the shipping terminal’s ability to process cargo.
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