![]() Pandemic-driven port congestion and labor shortages have forced retail chains including Costco to spend more on transportationīy Ariel Zilber and Snejana Farberov and James Gordon For.Transportation issues are causing delays in deliveries to stores despite suppliers having enough stock.Costco announced Thursday it was bringing back limits on purchases of items like toilet paper, paper towels and bottled water.The hubs are operating with 65 per cent of their usual staff as the shipping company struggles against the national labor shortage.FedEx announced that about 25 per cent of packages going into it shipping hubs, like the one in Portland, Oregon, are being diverted.The ports serve as the entry point for a third of imports to the US, and are the main import point for goods coming from China.Backup brought on by a combination of it being peak shipping period and a pandemic-induced buying boom and labor shortage.Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which normally moves 40% of containers in US, has 62 cargo ships waiting to dock, satellite images show.Earlier this year, Port of New York and New Jersey became the second busiest port in the country behind Los Angeles, according to recent shipping data.Nearly two dozen cargo ships and oil tankers are waiting to berth off the south shore of Long Island on Saturday as surge of imports and short-staffed ports have caused a logjam sea. ![]() ![]() Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook.Dozens of ships are forced to anchor off coast of New York as they wait to dock in the country's second-largest port - adding to US supply chain crunch which has forced FedEx to reroute 600k packages a day Thank you for supporting our journalism. You can subscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or electronic newspaper replica here. 13, Biden discusses supply chain crisis with US ports and carriers 19, North America's biggest container port faces record backlog Marine Exchange of Southern California, Oct.Marine Exchange of Southern California, accessed Oct.21, Fact check - Screenshot does not show 200,000 ships waiting to dock at Long Beach Port, California 14, Fact check: Image of live shipping map shows those underway as well as those waiting to dock 22, Biden says running LA ports 24/7 will help save Christmas shopping. The day the image was posted there were 108 container ships waiting to dock at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports. The company confirmed to USA TODAY the green arrows in the image represent actively moving ships, not those waiting to dock. The image is a screengrab from a vessel-tracking website that has been previously the subject of misinformation. The map actually showed all ships moving and anchored.įact check: Image shows NASA's flying observatory and an internet balloonįact check: No blue moon for Halloween this year, contrary to online claims Our rating: Falseīased on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that an image shows 200,000 cargo containers waiting to dock at Long Beach Port in California. This errant claim echoes a Facebook post previously debunked by USA TODAY, when a screengrab from MarineTraffic was falsely represented as showing a mass of "sitting ships" all over the world. "Green is cargo, red is tankers, arrow means vessels moving, dot means stopped," the Oct. MarineTraffic, aware of how their live map has been misinterpreted of late, posted a map legend on Twitter for users to know what each icon represents. Cargo ships at anchor would be represented by a green dot. The green arrows in the Facebook image represent ships moving, not those waiting to dock, Hatzimanolis told USA TODAY. Georgios Hatzimanolis, a media strategist with MarineTraffic, confirmed to USA TODAY in an email the map doesn't exclusively show ships waiting to dock. However, that's in Los Angeles, not at Long Beach Port as the Facebook post claims.įact check: No blue moon for Halloween this year, contrary to online claims Image primarily shows moving ships Gene Seroka, the port's executive director, said they had approximately 200,000 shipping containers still on ships at sea, CNN reported on Oct. The 200,000 figure appears to come from a misunderstanding of a statement by an official from the Port of Los Angeles. Accounting for all types of ships, the report said there were 169 vessels at berth and at anchor in both Californian ports.
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