FLORIDA WITH THE SAVE!: FL Ports Council Offers Ports as Alternative to Backlogged California, Helping to End Supply-Chain Jams

To help with supply chain jams, the Florida Ports Council is asking shipping companies to avoid the snarls in California, use the Panama Canal and come to the Sunshine State.

Source: Local 10

Published: October 13, 2021

By: Liane Morejon

MIAMI – To help with supply chain jams, the Florida Ports Council is asking shipping companies to avoid the snarls in California, use the Panama Canal and come to the Sunshine State.

President Joe Biden said Wednesday the Port of Los Angeles will move to 24/7 service as the Port of Long Beach already has and FedEx and UPS will increase overnight operations.

US Coast Guard Cmdr. Stephen Bor said cargo ships are back up along the shore and it looks like “a cell phone waiting lot” in the Pacific Ocean.

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“There are more ships than there are parking spots,” Bor said.

A beach goer sits on the beach in Seal Beach Calif., Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, as container ships waiting to dock at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are seen in the distance. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Mike Rubin, the Florida Ports Council’s president and chief executive officer, said the 7-day Panama Canal voyage to Florida will help shipping companies avoid moorage fees to anchor ships. Jonathan Daniels, the chief executive and director of Port Everglades, likes the idea.

Megan Greene, a global chief economist and senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School, said the supply problems started with China factory shutdowns.

Containers are placed at a port in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, on Sept. 7, 2021. Japans exports rose 26% in August from a year earlier, preliminary data released Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021 showed, below analysts forecasts, as supply chain disruptions hit manufacturers. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

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Containers are placed at a port in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, on Sept. 7, 2021. Japans exports rose 26% in August from a year earlier, preliminary data released Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021 showed, below analysts forecasts, as supply chain disruptions hit manufacturers. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

“On the U.S. side, the issue is much more with labor, so a shortage of longshore workers and truckers to actually get stuff off shipping containers and into stores, onto shelves,” Greene said.

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