At the end of August, there were some 40 vessels awaiting entry to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, CA, the first- and second-busiest container ports in North America, due to bottlenecks formed over 18 months of COVID disruptions to shipping, transportation, warehousing, and labor.
By mid-September, the number of ships anchored off California’s shores had exceeded 70, according to leadership at the Independent Beauty...





