You might remember on October 13, 2021, Joe Biden delivered widely carried remarks about specific actions his administration was taking to increase operations at the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) and the Port of Long Beach (POLB).
Here we take a closer look at the claims since the original announcement, and then highlight the actual results from the ports. The port operations are actually doing worse today than they were in October. They are less efficient, less productive and have offloaded less freight in November than they did in October. The factual results are exactly the opposite of the administration claims.
The October 13, 2021, White House fact sheet is HERE, “announcing a series of public and private commitments to move more goods faster, and strengthen the resiliency of our supply chains, by moving towards 24/7 operations at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.” On November 17, 2021, the White House gave an update, “Recent Progress at Our Ports: Moving Cargo and Filling Shelves” and claiming the increased hours of operations were delivering on the White House expectations of increased productivity and offloading capacity.
Throughout these past 11 weeks, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg have been claiming their supply chain task force has been successful in generating exceptional results and removing the backlog at the ports, specifically the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. However, if we look at the actual records from both ports, we find exactly the opposite:
Ports record their data in 20-foot equivalent units, or TEU’s. The Port of Los Angeles data shows they handled 468,713 import containers in October, and 405,309 in November. That’s a decrease of 63,404 import containers from the prior month. [DATA LINK]
The Port of Los Angeles is the largest port of the two. The POLA also showed a decrease in Total TEU’s handled (import and export). As you can see above, the total TEU’s handled in October was 902,643. The total TEU’s handled in November was 811,459.
That’s a decrease of 91,184 total containers handled. This is the exact opposite of what Biden, Harris and Buttigieg are claiming.
♦ Next, we look at the Port of Long Beach (POLB). [DATA HERE]
Again, we note the Total Loaded containers (carrying cargo) in October 2021, the month of the White House announcement, was 507, 214. In the full month of November 2021, the total of loaded containers handled was 472,215. That’s a decrease of 34,999 containers.
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There is a disconnect between what the White House, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg are saying, and the actual results of what is taking place at the Port of Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles. They claim hours of operation have expanded to increase capacity, yet fewer containers are being handled?
Perhaps the administration did not expect anyone to check when they claimed on November 29th:
“The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach—which handle 40 percent of the country’s containerized imports—continue to show improvement in moving containers out of the docks and into warehouses.” [White House link]
Despite what the White House Supply Chain Disruption Taskforce is claiming, the actual records from the ports do not concur. Someone is clearly lying, and/or not expecting anyone to check.
There’s a strong possibility they did not expect anyone to notice, because part of their logistical scheme involved telling the ship operators to wait further offshore so that it would give the illusion of less congestion near port:
CALIFORNIA – […] “Starting Nov. 16, ships waiting to anchor at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will have to wait for a green light about 150 miles from the coast, the Pacific Merchant Shipping Assn., the Pacific Maritime Assn. and the Marine Exchange of Southern California said in a statement Thursday. That compares with 20 nautical miles (23 miles) now. North- and southbound vessels must remain more than 50 miles from the state’s coastline.” (read more)
Apparently, what the White House taskforce did was to move the line of awaiting cargo ships further offshore to make them less visible. Then, it appears, the White House just started making up talking points about productivity at the ports increasing and capacities expanding; neither claim is based on facts that surface in the actual operations of the ports.
The outcomes speak for themselves. Both the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach handled less cargo and fewer containers in the first full month of the “new expanded operations” than they did in the previous month when the expanded operations were announced.
In order to remind ourselves how big an issue this was for the White House, watch the Biden announcement from October 13, 2021, again.
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It looks like the media need to start asking questions….
Oh wait, never mind.
Great way to start off 2022, with a nice deconstruction of yet more Bai D3n lies! Expect more throughout the rest of 2022, which will be known as the year of CCP-funded Bai D3n lies, or the Year of the Rat.
I’ve read that the backlog started with California’s tough new emissions laws on trucks. But that wouldn’t make Seattle and Portland process less. Does anyone know?
I doubt Newsome would do anything without China’s permission. Have they decided that its worth taking the hit themselves to damage America? That certainly seemed to be their COVID calculation.
I also find it interesting that Chinese vessels ring our ports while Taiwan is pressured…
Why would a country the practices mercantilism want to disrupt their customers ability to import their goods?
Assign blame where it is due. All things progressives touch turn to shit and the transportation industry in CA is the latest example.
Oh, I’m not letting them off the hook. But in many ways, Progressives are indistinguishable from their fiercely- Nationalistic Chinese owner-operators.
This just seems more like a decision than the usual “unexpected” economic carnage of socialists.
I read previously that neither Seattle nor Portland have anywhere near the handling capacity as the ports in CA.
Lies, Lies and More Lies, whatever else did you expect?
That the GOP does not publicly tell the truth after lies are told should tell everybody who they are supporting.
Clue – it ain’t us.
that the majority of our GOP “representatives” and ALL its leadership CAVED to OBVIOUS election fraud and were likely involved in its implementation shows you all you need to know
Such information as this is critical for the public. But the challenge is “when and where” to release it. That same public does not retain information well. Information has to be bundled. That said, this particular information should be released weekly in California to the growing Republican population.
I love the smell of Biden burning in the morning!
At this point, does anybody believe anything that comes out of the Biden administration? Personally, I don’t believe anything that comes out of this federal government, nor do I trust anybody who is a part of it. Unfortunately, that includes tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Americans. Maybe over a million, and I’m not even counting the military. Maybe that’s why they can always find Biden supporters, no matter how bad it gets.
I don’t call them Americans anymore. I call them Chinese citizens or the enemy of the nation.
They’re all too busy calling and sending out emails asking for money. They won’t get a damn penny from me. They have to earn it first and right now, I feel like they owe me a hell of a lot more than I owe them.
I stopped giving money to Republican when I finally realized it is one just giant UniParty. The Republican Party is nothing but a scam.
When I see RNC or NRCC on my caller ID I just laugh. And then curse.
Yep.
Good for you! I quit the party after the Patriot Act…
People don’t seem to understand these are not favorite football teams but that’s why most treat them like.
There is never a “next time” this isn’t a game and the track record should matter. No one can even cite what the record is.
Fool me once, fool me twice… What about 10000+ times?
two words: mitch mcconnell.
Mitch is the Grand Poo-Bah but the entire senate is a useless bastion of acolytes waiting to take his place. None are trustworthy.
More like a grand poo
I quit giving to the republican party after nafta/gatt.
Fund ONLY individuals that you can “fact check” on the goals America wants.
Right. Think global, act local.
I haven’t contributed to anyone outside my home state since 2016, and damned few of those.
OAN had someone on this AM who is running for something somewhere and he told where people could donate to his campaign, then followed up with, Not a penny of that goes to the GOP. 😉
I had to laugh because they finally get it. 🙂
I get inundated with emails since I donated to DJT. They are unrelenting.
Text messages too.
The ones I get are ignored. Part of that is they don’t even know who they are texting. I’ve been Sharon, Susie, pick any name other than my own.
Now Betsy, you know you must have voted under all of those names at your address. Have you looked up how many people are voting at your address yet?
You caught me!😉 I’m in Texas. We are having an audit at the moment. So far tens of thousands of illegitimate voter registrations have been discovered, and we are in the early stages of the investigation. My registration was checked where I voted and marked.
But no I have not.
Amen.
Shred contents of letter, put in envelope weigh with pennies, seal and drop in mailbox…. Postage due to addressee. Instant sand. I do that with AARP also.
If they are calling it’s because your still registered as one… That’s the part people need to start changing!!!
People don’t realize, the party is a minority compared to the others and it’s one of the few messages they MAY possibly understand.
disagree. register by party tactically to participate in the more important primary, which may change. voting is the easiest lever we have, corrupt as it is.
Primaries are the only hope of getting rid of some of the diosours who have been serving themselves instead of their constituents for 30 or 40 years.
Why do they keep getting reelected despite the mess they have made of things? The voter shows up in the much touted general election with the choice between a D or R.
I send back messages at the end of their request. Now I will tell them they owe me a hell of a lot more than I owe them! Thank You! I quit giving after Pres. Trump was outed on purpose.
We still have a massive shortfall of goods reaching the stores. I see alot of empty shelves at the grocery stores. But we do have fresh food from US farmers.
There are a lot of American farmers with farming operations in Mexico and South America. It is one reason why so many fruits and vegetables on grocery store display in the Winter.
there may be “American” farming concerns with farming operations there but there are NO American FARMERS there
You have got to be kidding? I know some personally who farm there.
You must be defining “American farmer” differently than most of us. I think of an American farmer as living on his or her own land in America and farming it. Or living here and farming on leased land in America. That occurs a lot where I live.
Normally I would only associate “Americans farming in other countries” with multinational corporations / operations. But I guess you’re about to inform us of a different approach.
These inept, photo op, low intellect, nefarious, personification of diversity, falsely propped up by Soros and obama would bankrupt a free lemonade stand. That is exactly their goal, bankrupt the USA financially, and the minds, bodies and spirits of the American people .
Sorry guys, not participating!
LOL. Brandon et al do the exact opposite of what they say just like the old Soviet Union. At least in the Soviet Union the people knew everything was lies.
Is there anything they don’t lie about? Anything?
Do we have all of 2022 to answer, I need more time. There must be something.
Brilliant idea, if they actually gave a damn about us peasants.
Lying , Censorship , pretending not to know things …. call it what it is —> Psychological Operations.
I.I.A – Internet Interactive Activities in support of PSYOPS to degrade & misdirect your quest for truth.
This is a 2 minute clip that explains it easily. ( MIND-WAR )
Canada admitted it used PSYOPs early in the Plan-Demic as well as tracking 33 Million phones.
gab.com/BeachMilk
If you look at the screen shots, it’s even worse than you’re saying. The November numbers aren’t just down from October, they’re worse than all the other months shown in the screen shot! So, at least worst since June for Long Beach and at least worst since January for Los Angeles. Sigh. Democrats are simply incompetent. Everything they touch turns to crap.
Yes, they can and should be highlighting the incompetence and tyranny every day.
362,000 loaded containers in.
109,000 loaded containers out.
Month, by month.
There is no better, simpler numbers for the bleeding of America dry.
Deficit spending hides the rot. Imports come off of GDP. Massage GDP with low interest and government spending, end result inflation.
When we went off the gold standard, it was because our trade deficits were unsustainable, and everybody could see it.
They could have revalued gold but when you devalue your currency it is an admission of failure. Nobody wants to be tagged with failure.
So “rich” Western nations now spend together to hide the rot with trade deficits. So after 50 years of floating rate currencies somehow, we need the Great Reset!
When we went off the gold standard it was because unsustainability was apparent. Now it is apparent that governments have mountains of debt that can never be paid.
Enjoy the NWO.
they do plan to repay it with INFLATED money…they suffer no regrets for the damage this will cause to the overall American economy…in fact, they count it as a benefit…read Cloven-Pivens
Cloward-Piven
“There is a disconnect between what the White House, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg are saying, and the actual results of what is taking place….”
There is always a disconnect between lies and truth.
But, but-didn’t several of the admin. recently say that uncle Joe ‘SAVED CHRISTMAS” Anybody have that clip?
Great report Sundance. This info is on the websites for all to see, the ports of Long Beach and LA, have excellent websites that forecast the status of all shipping traffic and container info. So intern we get more lies from
Obama/Brandon, to create the false perception of “everything is great”.
This administration is doing everything they can to ramp up inflation, inflict financial pain on all possible, and destroy our country a we know it.
Our voted Republicans have proven that they represent the Uniparty and themselves, they have violated their oath of office, and turned their backs on us the people they are to be working for.
WHAT HAPPENED TO PUBLIC SERVANTS.
They are not really lying, they just ‘claim’ things. By definition they are technically correct. This is where pretending not to know things comes in handy. Sorry, I’m trying to figure out how a lizard’s brain works.
claim – “an assertion of the truth of something, typically one that is disputed or in doubt.”
IKEA is raising prices 9% FJB do to supply chain you fixed you are a legion of an M T mind
But, but, but why would our thoughtful and caring Sharter In Thief lie to us…There has to be some mistake here-:)
Yep, never mind, nothing to see here. Build back better always begged the question, better according to whom or by what metric? “The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.” – Thomas Sowell.
This is how the Soviet Union would operate. Consider it Lysenkoism ‘science’ of shipping.
where is the mentally ill liberal media ?….why are they not braying about the 300,000 lies that sippycupjoe and his band of mentally ill liberal communists tell EVERY day ?
One hope that I have is that when the media foot soldiers, every talking head on the local tv news broadcasts…. when the inflation and pain hits them & their families personally maybe then they will begin to rethink the stupid words that fall from their mouths. They are not immune to the results of their lack of truth in reporting
The graphs show this failure occurred between October and November of 2021. Not 2020. The body of the article has typos, saying 2020. This failure occurred under Biden, not Trump. The typo should be corrected.
compare it to the fbi discussing the weiner computer/hillary’s emails. nothing of investigative substance, everything about media presentation.
the u.s. government is becoming a combination of a public relations enterprise, a money syphoning device, and a war machine. anything positive is mostly the result of momentum generated by better men and women, now retired or dead.
I’m done with all of it….
They are all full of poop…
We may never recover, from the actions all these fools.
In my old truck driving career, I picked up and dropped loads at virtually every port. I can guarantee you that Brandon spent all his time talking to union bosses and port bosses. He spent NO time talking to the guys that actually work there. And those guys aren’t very happy , to say the least. Talk to a truck driver waiting to get loaded or a forklift operator expected to bust his butt…..for BIDEN? Lol. Yeah right. Those guys are drinking another cup of coffee on their breaks and you can bet they’re taking an extra 5 minutes at lunch. Lol…..if it was PRESIDENT Donald J Trump……
Don’t forget that as a nation, when bath-house Barry the clean told us he was going to fundamentally transform America , nobody asked “into what?”
I have train tracks running through my small town on the edge of a large metro city in the midwest. They go east to west, west to east. I can see the trains from my home office window. Trains full of double stacked containers are constantly coming through heading east. In fact, I just watched another one. However, trains heading west are empty! No containers.
STOP donating the Grand Old Pilferers. They are all talk and ZERO action.
I’ve read elsewhere some of the problem may be offloading smaller ships.
I work in a related industry. Truckers moan about the Unions.
1. If a Union worker logs 8 hours, they might work 5. (They get paid half an hour, for example, to return to the locker room and undress into civilian clothes.)
2. Truckers say it can take 3-4 hours to get an empty container midweek, but they’re in and out on Friday… the Union workers want to be done by 3 PM.
This little chart from the zerohedge story “Escape from LA”makes it even clearer. The “blue” boats waiting are fewer now but there are more than ever “red” boats loitering further off-shore and slow-sailing to avoid reaching the port.
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I truly have never seen an administration that after one year in office has not done ONE SINGLE thing right- every choice they have made has been the wrong one for the American people (lockdowns, supply chain problems, children masked for 6 hours a day, taking us from energy surpus to $5/gal gas, etc…I could go on and on)…what compunds these stupid decisions is the fact that they are such poor liars. They are unbelievably lucky that the main stream press have been propping them up, but I am even seeing cracks there……..we need to have an unbiased, fair press that reports the facts, not parrots the White House.
I don’t see any anomalies here, It’s entirely predictable – adding more bureaucracy (like a ‘task force’) to find a solution will invariably screw things up and gum up the works. So, there is a correlation – albeit a negative one – between more government involvement and lower productivity. What the progressives don’t understand is that it has always the case and yet they keep asking for more of it. This proves two things: progressives are idiots and the goal of bureaucracy is to support more bureaucracy, and NEVER to serve the people.
Republicans are part of The Big Lie-
We have no representation- just a big con
Math is racist
It cost me a little more but I used Etsy and Ebay for hand made items for Christmas. Even had messages from some of the vendors. My gifts were better made and several of the folks I used here in California were people who knew my family Coming from a family of teachers sometimes comes in. handy!! Anyway a small effort to Make America. I also found that on Amazon, I can check a box that says only American made. It costs more but well worth it. I found several venders selling hand made wooden toys on both sites. One set I bought, he branded with my great grandchildren’s initials on their blocks.
This is why Pres. Trump was ousted, he went against the UN, NWO. Need to watch it a couple of times for it to sink in.