Traffic jam hits two local ports

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Los Angeles Daily News

Traffic jam hits two local ports
Woes caused by shortage of workers, ground transportation

By Alex Veiga
Associated Press

Friday, October 15, 2004 - These days, the worst traffic jam in Southern California is at the port.

Scores of mammoth cargo ships laden with Asian imports often must wait a week before their thousands of steel containers are loaded or unloaded at the sprawling docks along the coast of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

With ships arriving faster than dock workers can handle them, the ports can't keep ahead of the rising tide of Pacific Rim cargo. The delays have revealed problems with everything from harbor operations to the truck and rail systems that move goods inland.

Port officials have hired thousands of new dock and rail workers and plan to make the port a 24-hour operation. But the changes won't be fully implemented until next year, and many see the planned improvements as a temporary fix.

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[madrchsod]

1. up has a new container yard just east

of where i live in the next few years it will handle over one million containers several states in the midwest. all along the up line thru northern il are new warehouses being built to store all the crap from all points not in the USA