{"id":1025477,"date":"2021-11-17T22:28:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T03:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1025477"},"modified":"2021-11-17T22:28:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T03:28:31","slug":"joe-biden-blames-private-companies-for-port-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-blames-private-companies-for-port-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Blames Private Companies for Port Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-blames-private-companies-for-port-delays%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1025477&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden warned private companies Wednesday they were not doing enough to help alleviate clogged ship traffic and port delays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need major retailers who ordered the goods and the freight movers who take the goods from the ships to factories and to stores to step up as well,\u201d Biden said during a speech at the White House.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Port delays continue as container ships are forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/23\/business\/cargo-ships-supply-chain.html\">wait<\/a> for weeks to offload their cargo, frustrated by traffic and trucking and worker shortages.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18314554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1341617364-1-e1634161823158.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18314554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1341617364-1.jpg\" alt=\"LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 20: In an aerial view, container ships (Top R) are anchored by the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles as they wait to offload on September 20, 2021 near Los Angeles, California. Amid a record-high demand for imported goods and a shortage of shipping containers and truckers, the twin ports are currently seeing unprecedented congestion. On September 17, there were a record total of 147 ships, 95 of which were container ships, in the twin ports, which move about 40 percent of all cargo containers entering the U.S. (Photo by Mario Tama\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In an aerial view, container ships (Top R) are anchored by the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles as they wait to offload near Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama\/Getty Images).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Biden announced that the Los Angeles port had agreed to move to a 24\/7 schedule for operations, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/cargo-delays-are-getting-worse-but-california-ports-still-rest-on-weekends-11632648602\">could<\/a> speed up offloading capacities, even though a similar effort at the Long Beach port failed to attract more truckers available to ship goods, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/california-ports-24-hour-operation-is-going-unused-11633018532\">according<\/a> to the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The International Longshore and Warehouse Union also <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapitalist.com\/california-ports-stay-clogged\/\">requires<\/a> significantly higher overtime pay for any work done outside of normal hours.<\/p>\n<p>The president warned there was only a \u201cpotential\u201d of his plan succeeding, noting that private companies are responsible for utilizing the extra hours and&nbsp;paying truckers and railcar companies to move the goods off of the docks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the private sector doesn\u2019t step up, we\u2019re going to call them out and ask them to act,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>The president met at the White House with representatives of Wal-Mart, Target, and the Home Depot on Wednesday, announcing they had committed to using the extra hours to offload their products.<\/p>\n<p>The Long Beach port and the Los Angeles port handles about 40 percent of cargo imports into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also blamed businesses for adjusting their supply chains to be more efficient&nbsp;before the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world has changed,\u201d Biden said, blaming the \u201clean efficient supply chains\u201d developed by private companies for being unable to handle the disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The president praised his \u201cports envoy\u201d John Porcari for his success at solving issues at the ports, even though delays continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s done one heck of a job,\u201d Biden concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden warned private companies Wednesday they were not doing enough to help alleviate clogged ship traffic and port delays. \u201cWe need major retailers who ordered the goods and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}