[HN Gopher] Backlog of Ships at Port of LA Reaches Boiling Point
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       Backlog of Ships at Port of LA Reaches Boiling Point
        
       Author : elsewhen
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2021-09-30 21:36 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | cottager2 wrote:
       | Is it true they're only using 1 or 3 cranes? Why? To force
       | investment from the infrastructure bill?
        
         | voakbasda wrote:
         | Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is
         | adequately explained by stupidity. I find mismanagement due to
         | a few people in power to be a much easier explanation to
         | swallow than a planned conspiracy.
        
         | angmarsbane wrote:
         | I was just at a wedding and a woman at my table works w/ the
         | longshoremen / port workers in some HR role. She said the issue
         | they're having is each person interacts w/ 10s of other crew
         | people a day. If just one of them tests positive or has a
         | contact who tests positive they all have to go out &
         | quarantine. They simply don't have enough skilled people to
         | balance the large numbers that keep having to tap out.
        
         | lovich wrote:
         | The entire world economy is experiencing shortages of necessary
         | parts and labor due to the pandemic. Why do you think they'd be
         | doing this as some conspiracy to force an infrastructure bill,
         | vs it being what are currently normal hiccups in operation?
         | 
         | That's even before asking how many cranes they had on the first
         | place. The cranes to handle loading and unloading shipping
         | containers off of ships are not small machines that can be set
         | up in a week
         | 
         | Edit: I made the cardinal mistake of commenting before reading
         | the article. An executive from the port is quoted as talking
         | about the infrastructure bill and lack of investment in west
         | coast ports. While I doubt that they are causing delays on
         | purpose, it's a legitimate question to ask given their
         | statements.
         | 
         | Leaving my original post up as a monument to my sin
        
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