There Are Still A Few Kinks In The System
So there’s this article this morning at CNBC where our rail lines and Mayor Pete are talking about how hard they are trying to unclog our supply chain:
“Ongoing rail congestion at West Coast ports has created an opportunity for East Coast ports, container shipping companies and rail operators to enter into new trade relationships.
In January, ocean carrier Hapag Lloyd, Norfolk Southern, the Port of Virginia, and Union Pacific, collaborated in creating a triangle of trade where West Coast bound freight would be brought into the Port of Virginia and loaded onto Norfolk Southern rail cars. The containers would then be loaded onto a UP railcar in Chicago bound for the West Coast.
“At the end of the first quarter, we began to see the service develop,” said D’Andrae Larry, group vice president of international intermodal at Norfolk Southern. “Since then we’ve seen that service continually grow. So the first and foremost thing was this service was accepted by the marketplace.”
Larry said the idea originated with Hapag Lloyd, which was looking to move West Coast trade more efficiently.”
More efficiently.
I have one container that left Norfolk on June 15th using this new routing.
It arrived in Oakland, California on September 5th.
Yeah, 83 or so days.
Everything is going swimmingly.
Biz, World Stuff | Mr. Bingley | 
September 7, 2022 12:43 pm
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BACKSTROKING!
A few kinks?
Besides Buttigieg, there’s ‘Admiral’ Levine, that bald engineer in a dress, Brinton, & Heaven knows how many with lower profiles.
Proof that ‘incompetence is incompetence’.
“Besides Buttigieg, there’s ‘Admiral’ Levine, that bald engineer in a dress, Brinton, & Heaven knows how many with lower profiles.”
That makes me realize the current administration is basically the cast of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” without the dancing talent.
Aelf and Guns! Thanks so much for checking in 🙂
Glad to see you’re still kicking, Mr. B.