welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president biden has announced longer hours at america s largest port los angeles to try to help ease supply chain blockages in the run up to the black friday and christmas shopping seasons. suppliers around the world are struggling to cope with a rise in consumer demand, as countries emerge from pandemic lockdowns. the shortages are causing steep price rises in everthing from food to energy to consumer goods. from washington, here s our economics editor faisal islam. one of the world s biggest parking lots. dozens of cargo ships just waiting in the pacific, full of goods from asia, unable to dock at full terminals in the ports of california, with containers piled high. the same now happening on the atlantic coast off georgia too and in other ports around the world, the plumbing of the world economy not functioning properly. at the white house today, president biden summoned us business bosses to work 24/7 to c
happened. president biden has announced longer hours at america s largest port los angeles to try to help ease supply chain blockages in the run up to the black friday and christmas shopping seasons. suppliers around the world are struggling to cope with a rise in consumer demand, as countries emerge from pandemic lockdowns. the shortages are causing steep price rises in everything from food to energy to consumer goods. from washington, here s our economics editor faisal islam. one of the world s biggest parking lots. dozens of cargo ships just waiting in the pacific, full of goods from asia, unable to dock at full terminals in the ports of california, with containers piled high. the same now happening on the atlantic coast off georgia too and in other ports around the world, the plumbing of the world economy not functioning properly. at the white house today, president biden summoned us business bosses to work 24/7 to clear the backlogs. this is an across the board commi
job vacancies. and star trek s william shatner goes where no 90 year old has gone before and blasts off into space. one of the uk s biggest toy retailers says shops will have stock leading up to christmas but that supply chain issues could cause problems. the entertainerfounder, gary granty commenting on a build up of shipping containers at felixstowe the uk s biggest commercial port says it s due to a shortage of lorry drivers. he says the biggest difficulty wouldn t be a lack of toys, but getting products to the right places. megan patterson reports on the situation at felixstowe. packed up and now backed up. christmas stock stuck in thousands of containers at felixstowe. normally, containers would pass through here in two or three days, now it is taking more than a week. this is the uk s largest commercial port, a backlog here likely to have an impact in december. food i think will continue to move. pigs in blankets, turkeys. the import from europe and what we have
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