{"id":827844,"date":"2021-09-29T13:43:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T17:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=827844"},"modified":"2021-09-29T13:43:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T17:43:33","slug":"fact-check-does-this-video-show-a-september-2021-shipping-backlog-on-the-west-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-video-show-a-september-2021-shipping-backlog-on-the-west-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show A September 2021 Shipping Backlog On The West Coast?"},"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\">30<\/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%2Ffact-check-does-this-video-show-a-september-2021-shipping-backlog-on-the-west-coast%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=827844&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jason.forgivethemfather.foster\/videos\/155665200078566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows hundreds of cargo ships waiting off the West Coast in September 2021.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The footage, which dates back to February, actually shows ships near Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A seemingly unprecedented number of cargo vessels have been sitting off the coast of Southern California this month while waiting to enter ports, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/shipping-containers-stuck-california-ports-combat-shortages-2021-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business Insider<\/a> reported. The backlog of ships has stemmed from increased consumer demand for home improvement materials and other goods, as well as restocking efforts by retail companies whose inventories had gone down earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/why-container-ships-cant-sail-around-the-california-ports-bottleneck-11632216603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post features a TikTok video of swaths of ships floating motionless in the sea and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jason.forgivethemfather.foster\/videos\/155665200078566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attempts to suggest<\/a> with text in the video that it shows the \u201cshipping backlog on the west coast.\u201d Text also questions whether the backlog is \u201cintentional.\u201d However, the footage is actually over six months old and was not shot near any of the U.S.\u2019s coasts. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/03\/29\/fact-check-video-ships-waiting-suez-canal-blocked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Video Show Ships Waiting In The Suez Canal While It Was Blocked In March 2021?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A user posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/sujeeva-salwatura-49341a36_fascinating-site-witnessed-early-hours-yesterday-activity-6770222582080786432-w-lv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">longer version<\/a> of the footage on LinkedIn back in February with the caption saying: \u201cFascinating site witnessed early hours yesterday while on a short flight from Port City Chittagong to Dhaka \u2026. because of current global context and due to less bb imports most of lighter barges become unemployed and anchored. for sure they are not maintaining social distances as it appears!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps?q=dhaka&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=X&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjmmPvOhqPzAhW8SPEDHWxbCY8Q_AUoA3oECAEQBQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dhaka<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Chattogram,+Bangladesh\/@22.3261915,91.6794365,11z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x30acd8a64095dfd3:0x5015cc5bcb6905d9!8m2!3d22.356851!4d91.7831819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chittagong<\/a> are both Bangladeshi cities.<\/p>\n<p>The LinkedIn user who posted it confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/factcheck.afp.com\/video-was-taken-bangladesh-february-2021-weeks-ship-blocked-suez-canal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AFP<\/a> that he took it on a flight in February from Chittagong to Dhaka. Check Your Fact <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/03\/29\/fact-check-video-ships-waiting-suez-canal-blocked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previously debunked<\/a> a false claim that the video showed ships waiting to sail through Egypt\u2019s Suez Canal after the container ship Ever Given got stuck in the waterway in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Facebook purportedly shows hundreds of cargo ships waiting off the West Coast in September 2021.Verdict: False The footage, which dates back to February, actually shows ships &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-827844","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\/827844","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827844\/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=827844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}