The ports of Los Angeles and the adjacent Port of Long Beach will see traffic plummet in coming weeks.
A combination of slowing demand and better management means ports aren’t as backed up as they used to be.
There are fewer than 10 ships waiting for a berth. “There still are issues, but it’s much better,” a Marine Exchange executive says.
“We can use some fancy math to predict how long the line will get,” Keely Croxton of Ohio State says, then apply it to related problems.
Retailers and manufacturers are anxious about holiday shopping as they monitor supplies on delayed cargo ships.
Hundreds of thousands of freight containers wait to be offloaded at ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
A union in California goes up against the rising tide of automation.
East Coast ports can learn a lot from Los Angeles about handling giant ships.
The huge ships came into use far faster than ports expected.
A deal has been reached to end an eight day strike at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which handle almost half of all the cargo that arrives by sea in this country.
