US Rail Logjams Face Slow Recovery on Labor Woes: Supply Lines

At the Port of Los Angeles, Executive Director Gene Seroka describes a cargo bottleneck that’s bulging again on land and slowing railroad freight through Southern California.

On LA’s docks are 29,000 containers waiting for a train — a figure Seroka said last week should be “more in the 9,000 range.” The average dwell time is 7.5 days, a wait that ought to be closer to two. No containers should sit longer than nine days, but LA has 20,000 in that “all-important aging category right now,” Seroka said.

Supply Chains Inching Back to Normal Brace for Demand Headwinds

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