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    1. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

      There are hundreds of cranes. I counted only ~7 that were even operating and those that were seemed to be going pretty slow.

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    2. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

      It seems that everyone now agrees that the bottleneck is yard space at the container terminals. The terminals are simply overflowing with containers, which means they no longer have space to take in new containers either from ships or land. It’s a true traffic jam.

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    3. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

      Right now if you have a chassis with no empty container on it, you can go pick up containers at any port terminal. However, if you have an empty container on that chassis, they’re not allowing you to return it except on highly restricted basis.

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    4. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

      If you can’t get the empty off the chassis, you don’t have a chassis to go pick up the next container. And if nobody goes to pick up the next container, the port remains jammed.

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    5. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

      WIth the yards so full, carriers / terminals are being highly restrictive in where and when they will accept empties.

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    6. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

      Also containers are not fungible between carriers, so the truckers have to drop their empty off at the right terminal. This is causing empty containers to pile up. This one trucking partner alone has 450 containers sitting on chassis right now (as of 10/21) at his yards.

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    7. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

      This is a trucking company with 6 yards that represents 153 owner operator drivers, so he has almost 3 containers sitting on chassis at his yard for every driver on the team.

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    8. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

      He can’t take the containers off the chassis because he’s not allowed by the city of Long Beach zoning code to store empty containers more than 2 high in his truck yard. If he violates this code they’ll shut down his yard altogether.

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    9. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

      With the chassis all tied up storing empties that can't be returned to the port, there are no chassis available to pick up containers at the port.

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    10. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

      And with all the containers piling up in the terminal yard, the longshoremen can’t unload the ships. And so the queue grows longer, with now over 70 ships containing 500,000 containers are waiting off shore. This line is going to get longer not shorter.

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      Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

      This is a negative feedback loop that is rapidly cycling out of control that if it continues unabated will destroy the global economy.

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        2. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

          Alright how do we fix this, you ask? Simple. And we can do it fast now,

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        3. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

          When you're designing an operation you must choose your bottleneck. If the bottleneck appears somewhere that you didn't choose it, you aren't running an operation. It's running you.

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        4. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

          You should always choose the most capital intensive part of the line to be your bottleneck. In a port that's the ship to shore cranes. The cranes should never be unable to run because they're waiting for another part of the operation to catch up.

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        5. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

          The bottleneck right now is not the cranes. It's yard space at the container terminals. And it's empty chassis to come clear those containers out.

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        6. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

          In operations when a bottleneck appears somewhere that you didn't design for it to appear, you must OVERWHELM THE BOTTLENECK!

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        7. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

          Here's a simple plan that @potus and @GavinNewsom partnered with the private sector, labor, truckers, and everyone else in the chain must implement TODAY to overwhelm the bottleneck and create yard space at the ports so we can operate against

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        8. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

          1) Executive order effective immediately over riding the zoning rules in Long Beach and Los Angeles to allow truck yards to store empty containers up to six high instead of the current limit of 2. Make it temporary for ~120 days.

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        9. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

          This will free up tens of thousands of chassis that right now are just storing containers on wheels. Those chassis can immediately be taken to the ports to haul away the containers

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        10. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

          2) Bring every container chassis owned by the national guard and the military anywhere in the US to the ports and loan them to the terminals for 180 days.

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        11. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

          3) Create a new temporary container yard at a large (need 500+ acres) piece of government land adjacent to an inland rail head within 100 miles of the port complex.

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        12. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

          4) Force the railroads to haul all containers to this new site, turn around and come back. No more 1500 mile train journeys to Dallas. We're doing 100 mile shuttles, turning around and doing it again. Truckers will go to this site to get containers instead of the port.

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        13. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

          5) Bring in barges and small container ships and start hauling containers out of long beach to other smaller ports that aren't backed up.

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        14. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

          This is not a comprehensive list. Please add to it. We don't need to do the best ideas. We need to do ALL the ideas.

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        15. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

          We must OVERWHELM THE BOTTLENECK and get these ports working again. I can't stress enough how bad it is for the world economy if the ports don't work. Every company selling physical goods bought or sold internationally will fail.

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        16. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

          The circulatory system our globalized economy depends has collapsed. And thanks to the negative feedback loops involved, it's getting worse not better every day that goes by.

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        17. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast 22 Oct 2021

          I'd be happy to lead this effort for the federal or state government if asked. Leadership is the missing ingredient at this point.

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