Joe Biden Reacts Late to Clogged Ports Crisis; White House Blames Private Business

President Joe Biden will try to address the issue of clogged ports on Wednesday, after months of failing to demonstrate real progress on the issue.

The president will meet at the White House with the executive directors of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach as well as representatives from Walmart, UPS, FedEx, Target, and Samsung. Biden will also meet with labor unions and trucking and railroad representatives.

But the White House told reporters in a briefing call on Tuesday that the supply chain backlog was ultimately up to private businesses to solve.

“The supply chain is essentially in the hands of the private sector, so we need the private sector to up to help solve these problems,” an official said. see below about exec order to overhaul and regulate shipping and agriculture
The Los Angeles port and Long Beach port had 81 ships anchored offshore and 62 at berth waiting to get unloaded as of Monday, according to the Associated Press.







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On the surface, the supply chain crisis that’s left ships off both U.S. coasts facing a month of waiting before they’re unloaded is caused by bottlenecks following a post-COVID retail flush, rising shipping costs, and a lack of truckers available to unload containers waiting offshore (Redstate covered that angle here). That’s what labor unions told the Daily Mail, anyway, no doubt with the intent to remind everyone of their importance.


But scratch the surface, and supply chain problems are revealed to be much more complicated, driven by bureaucratic intrusion, and effectively look like a mini-war between shippers and carriers, one that the Biden administration and the Democrat-led House of Representatives aren’t interested in working on until at least November, making the problems we’re seeing today extend into the Christmas season.

Part of the problem lies with the Biden administration’s “Executive Order on America’s Supply Chains,” issued on Feb. 24, 2021, which set up a “‘sectoral supply chain assessment‘ of six industrial sectors, including transportation. It requires the secretary of transportation, consulting with the heads of the department’s modal agencies, to submit a report to the president within one year of the executive order that assesses ‘the role of transportation systems in supporting existing supply chains and risks associated with those transportation systems.'”

According to the industry trade outlet FreightWaves in a piece published in March, the EO is vague enough to introduce uncertainty into the system. Couple that with the deadline (February 2022) that several different agencies (The secretaries of commerce, transportation and agriculture are now part of a new supply-chain task force) have to submit reports and it starts to look like the EO could be a direct contributing factor to the current supply chain problems. When government gets involved, it’s not unusual for things to slow down while the industry figures out the new rules in order to comply and avoid fines.


In addition to the new audits, there’s apparently draft legislation that would overhaul U.S. shipping regulation called the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2021 that the Democrat-led House is refusing to work on until after November “once the House has addressed the infrastructure package, voting rights reform, and legislation to bolster Roe v. Wade,” according to a The Journal of Commerce Online. Says quite a bit about the priorities of legislators on the left.