Supply Chain Bottlenecks
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Re: Supply Chain Bottlenecks
Gregg, to the Ford courtesy phone, please. Calling Gregg to the Ford courtesy phone.
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Re: Supply Chain Bottlenecks
It's like poor Clemenza who had to wait for his new car because of WWII, yet, a couple years after the war, he gets his car but with temporary wooden bumpers.
Except that bumpers are a bit more important than the badge, well to some customers.
Except that bumpers are a bit more important than the badge, well to some customers.
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Re: Supply Chain Bottlenecks
Tim Walz’ Golden Rule: Mind your own damn business!
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Re: Supply Chain Bottlenecks
Without link, the messages I have seen since late summer is that the L.A. Ports have cleared. There seems to be some indications that freight has been re-routed to the east coast.
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Re: Supply Chain Bottlenecks
That trend has been happening for a while, long before the COVID mess. Savannah GA can be well worth the extra cost for the Panama Canal transit depending on the type of goods involved. I did a study for a consulting client a couple years ago that showed that Savannah was the best port, and Macon GA the best warehouse location, to get into large retailers' distribution networks, in terms of total road miles needed to traverse to get products to retailers' regional distribution centers.
The reason for the collapse (and for the LA port situation to get straightened out so fast) is that Chinese factories are not operating, so there's less product looking for a ride to the US/Europe. If it were solely about the port capacity in Los Angeles, we wouldn't see container prices at this level; they'd be more in line with normal historical patterns, where the seasonal rush of Christmas-related merchandise would be on the water right about now.