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Ships waiting to unload, truckers overworked, rail yards clogged: Inside Americas broken supply chain
The global supply chain that brings toys, clothing, electronics and furniture from Asia to the United States each year is clogged, an enduring impact of the pandemic that is unlikely to ease soon.
By David J. Lynch
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The global supply chain that brings toys, clothing, electronics and furniture from Asia to the United States each year is clogged, an enduring impact of the pandemic that is unlikely to ease soon.
By David J. Lynch
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Ships waiting to unload, truckers overworked, rail yards clogged: Inside America's broken ... (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Sep 2021
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Historic NY
(37,449 posts)1. Yes it is, and too few people are taking the jobs that it needs,
secondly, when we off-shored manufacturing to other places, they too are having the same problems. We consume more than we make, billions down the sewer because auto manufacturers rely on overseas markets, the same that all companies use. I can see a lot of unfinished tens of thousands of vehicles will be retagged as 2023's.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)2. "To be sure, the United States is importing historic amounts of goods."
Good article, thanks. The economic impacts have been growing.
"Long before the coronavirus, the United States lagged other major economies in moving goods efficiently. In 2018, the World Bank ranked the U.S. 14th out of 160 countries, down from ninth four years earlier, based on a periodic survey of freight forwarders and cargo carriers. Likewise, regulators with the FMC warned in 2015: Congestion at ports and other points in the nations intermodal system has become a serious risk factor to the relatively robust growth of the American economy and to its competitive position.
An "inland port" or distribution center, one of many around the nation, is to be constructed in our GA county, linking to the Port of Savannah via rail. Part of much needed infrastructure development, it'll increase speed and efficiency and be less environmentally damaging.
From my consumer perspective the chain's not broken but certainly clogged. We hear. We purchase a lot on line, and almost everything we've ordered in the last year has arrived on time or with acceptable delay.
No doubt the sheer plenty available of most goods is hiding what isn't arriving for sale. And apparently we're very fortunate to not be waiting for a new couch to be made for us. Our daughter's remodeling a condo, though, and has been able to have choices and supply for everything she needs.
Where I'm able to see obvious, repetitive, somewhat disturbing signs of problems is blank spaces on grocery shelves and "item not available" when I place our grocery orders on line. But we're not exactly suffering in the midst of plenty.
For our contribution to unclogging the glut of suppressed demand recently unleashed on the supply chain, I've already told our grandchildren they're getting cash this Christmas.