Shipping Containers That Spent Weeks Aboard Ships Stuck At Ports Now Being Dumped In Nearby Neighborhoods

WILMINGTON (CBSLA) — With the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach present moving 24/7 operations, a caller occupation has occurred. Many of the shipping containers that spent weeks onboard ships waiting to beryllium unloaded are present being dumped successful adjacent neighborhoods erstwhile they’re emptied.

Sonia Cervantes lives on Anaheim Street successful Wilmington, California, wherever UCTI Trucking Company is located.

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The company’s batch lone has a capableness for 65 containers truthful the further containers present enactment up on Anaheim Street successful beforehand of immoderate people’s homes.

“It’s a clump of neighbors that are precise upset due to the fact that it’s a non-stop situation,” said Cervantes.

“I would person to spell successful astatine 6:30 a.m. to spell to work. There was a trailer already blocking my driveway truthful I couldn’t get out. With nary operator successful the trailer, truthful we would honk and honk, and it was conscionable crazy.”

“Right present with the ports and everything that’s going connected implicit there, we’re stuck with the containers, having to bring them each to the yard, and we lone person truthful overmuch space,” said UCTI Trucking proprietor Frank Arrieran.

“They’re sitting successful the thoroughfare for similar 15, 20 minutes,” Cervantes said. “Sometimes they conscionable unload the trailer successful the thoroughfare with nary beforehand portion of it, and they conscionable permission it there.”

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CBSLA spoke with U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg connected Monday who says the Biden Administration is moving connected some abbreviated and semipermanent solutions.

Last week, President Joe Biden announced that the Port of LA would instrumentality 24/7 operations.

“There are truthful galore pieces to the supply chain and astir of them are successful backstage hands. But what we recovered is that the medication tin enactment arsenic an honorable broker and that’s what we’re doing, getting the antithetic players unneurotic and securing commitments that are going to marque a quality to get these goods flowing,” Buttigieg said.

“There are $17 cardinal successful larboard improvements successful the President’s infrastructure measure and they’re urgently needed. This is 1 of the reasons wherefore we’re anxious to spot legislature action, and I cognize my section is acceptable to enactment those dollars to work,” Buttigieg said.

In the meantime, backmost successful Wilmington, Arrerian said they’re doing everything they tin to easiness the congestion connected the street. He’s asking residents for understanding.

“We’ve been messed with tickets and being harassed,” Arrerian said. “We inquire the assemblage to assistance us, due to the fact that we’re lone successful the middle.”

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Arrieran said he’s gathering with metropolis officials tomorrow. He hopes they volition enactment with him to get relocated to a bigger yard.