Port Of Baltimore Traffic Swells With New Contracts & Supply Chain Issues

BALTIMORE, Md. (WJZ) — A time aft traffic came to a standstill extracurricular the Port of Baltimore, things person returned to normal.

Port representatives connected Wednesday said the postulation woes, which they attributed to higher-than-normal cargo volume, person subsided.

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“We’re receiving much cargo due to the fact that we’re a non-congested port, some astatine the terminal and erstwhile we determination retired of the gross either by motortruck oregon by rail,” said William Doyle, the port’s enforcement director.

Doyle apologized to truckers, saying the larboard is moving connected making cargo determination efficiently portion addressing roadworthy problems astir the facility. That roadwork includes the span implicit Colgate Creek.

“(Truckers) person to gain a surviving and they’re making a surviving connected their crook times,” Doyle said.

Backups astatine different large ports successful different large cities person meant much measurement astatine the Port of Baltimore. Ships are sitting idle successful and adjacent the Port of Los Angeles arsenic determination aren’t capable trucks, trains oregon warehouses to instrumentality cargo.

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“The trucking manufacture contiguous is inactive down (60,000) oregon 80,000 drivers,” C.H. Robinson President and CEO Bob Biesterfeld told CBS News. “These are simply conscionable not things that I judge are going to beryllium solved implicit the people of the adjacent weeks oregon months.”

That means shortages volition astir surely impact the vacation buying season, experts predict.

“This planetary proviso concatenation works lone arsenic good arsenic the weakest link,” Port Envoy John Porcari said.

Doyle said the Port of Baltimore began 2 caller work contracts successful the past mates months.

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“That’s 21 caller ships successful the past 9 weeks,” Doyle said.

Paul Gessler