Cranes and cargo at the Port of Los Angeles.
Shipping container shortages in Asia, traffic jams at ports, limited availability of dockworkers and truck drivers from Southern California to Singapore, higher shipping prices all are part of a now-stretched supply chain due to the pandemic, according to a recent New York Times report. What is the impact on rail?
“‘I’ve never seen anything like this,’” Lars Mikael Jensen, head of Global Ocean Network at A.P. Moller-Maersk, the world’s largest shipping company, told
The New York Times, which included his quote in the headline of a March 7 feature, “‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’: Chaos Strikes Global Shipping.”