🚨 Port Shutdown Alert: LA & LB Facing Massive Strike Risks!
Your container is on the water, heading to Los Angeles, so you relax. Big mistake. The ocean isn't the problem this season — the shore is. As land-side challenges intensify at major U.S. gateways, trucking delays, chassis shortages, and congested highway corridors have become critical roadblocks in moving freight out of the ports. Welcome to the "land-side storm." Three separate pressure waves are stacking up at the largest gateway for US imports, and together they're creating the most complicated land-side logistics test the port has faced in years. The numbers you need to know As of October 26, 35,700 import containers were waiting for rail loading across the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Of those, more than 10,500 had already been sitting at the docks for at least nine days . Los Angeles is hit worse than Long Beach. Of the 19,626 containers waiting on rail at LA, 8,133 — about 41.4% — had been there over nine days . Long Beach's long-dwell shar...