Container congestion

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It is getting worse rather than better:

Global boxport congestion sets fresh record highs - Splash247

And it is not enough to blame greedy foreign Shipowners:

There is still no fix to non-ocean bottlenecks which are big drivers of supply and demand, and not in a good way for shippers,” the latest weekly report from Danish container advisory Sea-Intelligence warned, going on to list the 70,000 truckers who have just gone on strike in California and the tens of thousands of containers clogging the US west coast ports waiting for rail to destinations, because there are not enough engineers. There are nearly 30,000 rail containers delayed on the port of Los Angeles docks alone, with rail-bound cargo sitting for an average of 7.5 days. Over on the east coast, meanwhile, congestion levels, brewing for the last two months, are closing in on record levels.

But help is on the way:

Biden signs executive order to keep rail freight moving - Splash247

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Improvement on USWC:

West Coast ports reduce idling vessels as container supply increases

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Chinese port cities facing lockdown again:

Covid lockdowns return to key Chinese port cities - Splash247

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PSA has a way to reduce terminal and road congestion in Singapore:

The PSA Singapore inter terminal container vessel PSA AGILITY passing the inshore traffic zone inbound for the Brani container terminal
Photo : Piet Sinke www.maasmondmaritime.com (c)

[freighterman1]

What congestion?

Seems over in the States.

Congestion any place else?

[freighterman1]

I’m fascinated by what drives the conversation on Gcaptain and what does not. From Gcaptain yesterday [edited at …]:

“…Container imports into the U.S. saw their biggest decline in more than a decade last month…January now marks seven straight months of expanding year over year declines…West Coast ports once again the biggest declines in January, down 23.5% yoy… East and Gulf Coast ports showed only a 12.6% decline in January…On the other hand, containerized exports continue to improve with outbound volume up 11.9% last month to a little more than 811,000 TEUs, marking the third monthly gain and best month out of the last 20…”

So the containership backlog–once the source of weeks and weeks of outrage and pontificating on this forum-- is gone. What’s more, exports are up. This apparently doesn’t merit any interest on Gcaptain.

Why?
No drama?
No comic book villains?