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Track The Massive Congestion At The Port Of Long Beach In Real Time

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Things on the West Coast Ports are going from bad to worse (for those who missed it read "Catastrophic Shutdown Of America's Supply Chain" Begins: Stunning Photos Of West Coast Port Congestion), and with no resolution in sight, it is now beginning to cripple the US economy. Here is a brief summary, courtesy of the WSJ, of how the near-strike is already impacting various businesses across the US:

  • Ocean carrier Maersk Line has canceled some sailings, while China Ocean Shipping (Group) Co. said it will skip at least one port
  • Shipping line CMA CGM Group said it has “adapted its schedule and has been modifying its ports call order.” China Ocean Shipping said it has canceled some port stops.
  • Truckers that normally haul an average of five containers a day away from the Port of Oakland, Calif., are lucky to haul one.
  • At the Port of Oakland, truck drivers can spend up to three days waiting in line before hauling one container out of the yard, says Henry Osaki, an employee at an Oakland-based trucking company.
  • A West Coast customs broker said that her customers are being assessed as much as $300 a day for containers that sit too long on the docks, though the containers are trapped there.
  • Levi Strauss & Co. said it was concerned it wouldn’t receive some products in time for spring deliveries.
  • As of Monday, Honda Motor Co. was experiencing parts shortages at plants in Ohio, Indiana and Canada that will affect its production on multiple days over the next week.
  • The Agriculture Transportation Coalition estimates that port delays and congestion have reduced U.S. agricultural exports by $1.75 billion a month, while the North American Meat Institute put losses to U.S. meat and poultry producers at more than $85 million a week, including hides and skins.
  • The delays could cost retailers alone as much as $3.8 billion this year, according to an analysis by consulting firm Kurt Salmon. Adding in rerouting and carrying costs and other expenses could bring retailers’ total costs to $7 billion this year, the firm said.
  • Bert von Roemer, owner of Serengeti Trading Co., a Dripping Springs, Texas, coffee importer began rerouting coffee beans he intended to ship to the West Coast to Houston, Norfolk, Virginia and New York. “I’m railing the coffee across” to roasters in California, he said. “It’s costing me about $2,000 extra per container,”

And so on, as more and more distributors, retailers, producers, manufacturers, and ordinary mom and pop business, decide that the time has come to blame something - last year it was the Polar Vortex which compared to the current climate conditions was a spring breeze - for what is a global economic depression, one from which the US is not decoupling. That something being the west coast port strike this time, coming soon to a Wall Street scapegoating "analyst" near you soon.

For those interested in tracking the port congestion as it gets progressively worse, here is a live map courtesy of MarineTraffic:

 

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Wed, 02/18/2015 - 15:27 | 5800161 Son of Captain Nemo
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Your focus on their pay or mental capabilities takes the focus off of what YOU can do & have control over as opposed to a complete exercise in futility focusing on what YOU have no control over. Wasted energy. Your energy.

Just a microcosm of the problem Groper... Cause in America we're all "stevedores" now my brotha!

Anyway 'pullmyfinger' nailed it!!!

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 13:05 | 5799306 Chauncey Gardener
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iPhone shortage in 3, 2, 1...

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 13:35 | 5799486 Son of Captain Nemo
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"."

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 15:01 | 5799954 El Vaquero
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"Allowing a small gang of overpaid chumps to block your nation's trade is something you might find in some African country."

 

Or in a banana republic...FUCK!  I hate it when something simple like that makes perfect sense.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 11:43 | 5798781 Magnum
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Rotten leadership in handling this debacle, where are they when we really need them?  Far more is at stake than the rats operating port cranes care to know.  The number of jobs that will evaporate are in the tens of thousands!  Start with Portland Oregon where Hanjin is permanently closing a terminal that provides over 650 jobs, clearing cargo that provides jobs for tens of thousands more.  

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 13:43 | 5799528 Atticus Finch
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I suspect this is part of the North American Union operation. Shipments come in through Mexico and then straight through the Central US. Its all in place. I drove across the country in 2011 and came across cities in the middle of empty plains retitled as "Port of". These cities were in the middle of nowhere.

Test have been run already where trucks from Mexico come across the border with no border crossing stop. These semi-tractor trailers were marked as part of the test and Border Patrol waved them through without a customs check. This occurred at least five years ago.

Check Interstate 35 corridor.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 15:27 | 5800180 atthelake
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This explains a lot.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 11:46 | 5798803 Unix
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...and FUCK THE UNIONS too!!!

Greed, greed and more greed...banksters, politicians, unionistas, and the welfare queens (the lazy and corporate), the whole fucking lot of them...I wish I could spit unranium depleted pellets at all of the 'I want mine' crowd!

How do you like me now?

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 13:03 | 5799253 Atomizer
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Too bad the Google barge is not active, they could of used it as a lifeboat delivering inland supply based products to service the fleet of crews stranded in the water. Raising a a Red Cross flag, and you're in business.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 13:26 | 5799427 BearOfNH
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"could have", not "could of"

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 13:58 | 5799623 Atomizer
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No problem grammer police. Thanks for editing my post. Shall I run my editoral correction thru you prior to ZH submission. I'll pay you with spent pistachio shells. Do we have deal? Sign the contract.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 15:16 | 5800082 BearOfNH
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That would be "grammar" police. And, "Do we have a deal?"

Remember man that dust thou art, and to dust thou shalt return.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 11:55 | 5798825 freedom123
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Proven Russian Federation aka putin regime artillery attack on Ukraine as support force for Russian terrorist to invade Ukraine territory

RUS: http://youtu.be/I7LmwrODv3U

ENG: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/02/17/origin-of-artil...

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 12:05 | 5798919 smacker
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As the English article says, the Ukraine forces were along Uke's border with Russia, either to provoke Russia or to invade it. Someone then fired artillery at them, so it says. Big deal. They're military thugs. What about the countless shells they have fired at civilians in Donetsk?

And wouldn't you want to keep the Kiev fascists out of your country? Oh ...wait ...

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 14:32 | 5799788 freedom123
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Putin regime thought Ukraine would invade Russia and that is why putin regime attacked Ukraine first?

Than why didn't putin regime declared war on Ukraine? Why act like coward and deny what has been proven?

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 15:20 | 5800111 atthelake
Wed, 02/18/2015 - 15:19 | 5800096 BolshevikPartyP...
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Hey Victoria Nuland (Nudleman), go pass out some cookies at your next color revolution.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 11:56 | 5798836 freedom123
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Proven Russian Federation aka putin regime artillery attack on Ukraine as support force for Russian terrorist to invade Ukraine territory

RUS: http://youtu.be/I7LmwrODv3U

ENG: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/02/17/origin-of-artil...

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 15:39 | 5800265 Eahudimac
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Proven annoying Latvian troll invades anal territory of unsuspecting goat.

https://www.Icanhavesexwithawetcheerioandnotbreakit.com

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 12:00 | 5798888 roadhazard
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Nobody is buying much anyway.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 12:13 | 5798971 sudzee
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Physical delivery is so 20th century. Just settle in cash.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 12:15 | 5798984 honkadoo
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Hopefully this will result in the destruction of 'murca that the ZHers pray for. God knows they want it.

 

Until then, keep blaming 'obummer', 'obozo', 'obongo' or any others you see fit.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 12:20 | 5799017 Ban KKiller
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No, we place blame where it belongs...on the banks. Not on stooges like Presidents, Congress, Parlimnent, etc. 

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 12:15 | 5798989 silentboom
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Tommy used to work on the docks, union's been on strike, he's down on his luck, it's tough, so tough.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 12:26 | 5799054 TeethVillage88s
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Hey do they mean a** intercourse in France if they say sodomize... I mean speaking of the docks. In parts of the USA it can be fingers in lower places...

"The trial has also heard sordid testimony from former prostitutes who said they felt too powerless to say no when Strauss-Kahn sodomised them because they were paid."

http://news.yahoo.com/romantic-paris-sex-clubs-more-hip-ever-132438340.html (Libertine Clubs in Paris)

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 12:20 | 5799018 F0ster
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This is how you fight China with sending bombs.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 12:27 | 5799061 I Write Code
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China should just build a giant floating island 12 miles off the coast, and let consumers come out there to shop.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 12:30 | 5799075 Vendetta
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It should cause the best improvement in the US trade deficit in at least 20 years.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 12:32 | 5799089 sosoome
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Simple solution. ISIS needs jobs to calm them down; bring them over to work the docks.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 14:11 | 5799683 Caleb Abell
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Barry is already paying them to work in Iraq & Syria.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 14:43 | 5799843 BustainMovealota
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and paying them more money than working here

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 12:33 | 5799095 Nue
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How long before these things get redirected to the Eastern Ports via the P.C or better yet sent down to Mexico and trucked across the border?

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 12:48 | 5799198 Atomizer
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Labor dispute is allegedly based on healthcare.

http://www.joc.com/special-topics/west-coast-labor-disputes

 

Another example of why labor unions are a joke. Ex-longshoremen's union official is indicted on waterfront corruption charges | 2010 – opposite side of coast.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 14:42 | 5799835 BustainMovealota
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Just a red herring.  Baltic Dry Index tells the real story and the carpet is about to pulled out from under this sham economy.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 13:01 | 5799281 observiate
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so then, why would houston, norfolk, seattle, et cetera... be less congested? are they congested also?

do many goods from the orient not also come through the portland, oregon port? or the seattle / vancouver port?

i understand fully that las angeles is the busiest port in north america... but i guess i am confused as to how the other ports - especially the other west coast ports - play into the dynamics of the whole

 

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 00:59 | 5802245 azusgm
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You have to have facilities for containerized freight and that can accomodate the new larger ships. The Port of Houston already handles 66% of the freight in the Gulf of Mexico and the port is expanding.

http://www.portofhouston.com/business-development/trade-development-and-...

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 13:33 | 5799469 Atticus Finch
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Sounds like the US needs to go back to producing its own products.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 13:36 | 5799492 IndianaJohn
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China is the major buyer of the offal that is produced at US hog slaughter houses. The Offal is piling up something awful.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 13:46 | 5799545 Atomizer
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Something smells like shit. I won’t embed links, read for yourself.

 

 

http://www.portsamerica.com/pdf/Hassing%20October%202013%20Lloyds%20List.pdf

http://www.portsamerica.com/about.html

http://www.highstarcapital.com/

http://www.uctc.net/research/diss131.pdf

http://www.portstrategy.com/news101/products-and-services/los-angeles-and-hamburg-collaborate

 

For the newspaper journalist out there, I see it.. However, might be wrong. The Dubai controlling interest still sticks with me. Thankfully, it didn’t happen. Highstar Capital sends alarm bells. Based on 2013, this union received a 6 year contract. Something doesn’t add up. Run with the story.. Thanks!

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 15:07 | 5800008 atthelake
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It's time to CYA. STOCK UP, if you can.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 14:14 | 5799701 homiegot
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Chaos in Pedro.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 14:18 | 5799718 10mm
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Gonna be a interesting summer.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 14:27 | 5799764 Saucy-Jack
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And the puppet masters laughed...

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 14:41 | 5799828 trippy64
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looks very similar to the back up in europe and elsewhere, perhaps someone is making a normal course of business and claiming chaos

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 14:47 | 5799852 VooDoo6Actual
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I think the Unions were part of the catalyst as the timing is suspicious. The ME is going to be on fire soon. Ukraine is still volitile & suspect. This trickles down into the Private Truckers who can't make deliveries & make their obligations & JIT (Just In Time) food deliveries, PLUS all the MEDS that are shipped from China / Phillipines et al. So people won't have their meds, food or ability to pay their bills from the lack of commerce. The Zombies should be coming out in droves after they can't receive their SSRI's / Anti Depressents. Lots happening on the planet currently no doubt. Dominos & underpinnings in place to cascade.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 14:47 | 5799874 Shekels
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Block your borders America and produce your own shit - you can be self sufficient.  Don't send any more aid or hardware to Israhell !

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 15:01 | 5799962 TheMuppet
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Libertarians need to read up on Adam Smith:

 

“Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the differences between masters and their workmen,” Adam Smith noted in The Wealth of Nations, “its counsellors are always the masters.”

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 15:24 | 5799968 atthelake
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Slightly off topic. I order my groceries online and have them delivered. Never have I seen so many "out of stock"s, almost certainly, from the the continuing snowstorms. Availabilty of food is starting to become an issue. If you can, STOCK UP, for the long term.

Something stinks and we're all, almost certainly, going to suffer for it.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 15:27 | 5800175 TalkToLind
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If those ships turn back, how will we be able to continue exporting our inflation to the rest of the world?  

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 15:29 | 5800190 DaveA
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A big sticking point in the negotiations is who gets to pay the new Obamacare tax on "Cadillac" health plans. I think the union guys should pay it because they voted for Obama.

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 15:37 | 5800249 Monetas
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One is called "Baltic Breeze" !

Wed, 02/18/2015 - 16:51 | 5800556 SilvertonguedAngel
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I'll take these Longshoremen over their adversary the multi-national corporations who are trying to muscle the longshoremen out of work so they can replace with illegals ANY DAY!

 

GO LONGSHOREMEN AND FUCK ALL YOU SELLOUT POS SIDING WITH OBAMAS MASTERS!

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