Christmas was saved from the supply-chain bottleneck. The next challenge: Lunar New Year
LOS ANGELES — The supply-chain nightmare didn’t cancel Christmas, but another holiday crisis is looming: the Lunar New Year. Local lawmakers and port officials accompanying U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg at the Port of Long Beach on Tuesday acknowledged enduring problems with the shipping, unloading and delivery of goods across the country, including the challenge of getting the ...
by Hugo Martín, Los Angeles Times
Jan 11, 2022
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES — The supply-chain nightmare didn’t cancel Christmas, but another holiday crisis is looming: the Lunar New Year.
Local lawmakers and port officials accompanying U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg at the Port of Long Beach on Tuesday acknowledged enduring problems with the shipping, unloading and delivery of goods across the country, including the challenge of getting the local ports — a major chokepoint — to operate around-the-clock.
And though one holiday crisis appears to have been averted, a fresh surge of cargo from Chinese manufacturers is expected to flood U.S. ports before Chinese
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