![]() The concentrate for kids’ juice packs normally comes inside refrigerated container units. Recent shipments include lithium batteries for solar and wind farms that came in 40-foot containers and juice concentrate in drums delivered by a refrigerated breakbulk ship. Officials are working to make sure any spot container cargo doesn’t interfere with or slow down operations for existing customers, spokeswoman Marguerite Elicone said in an email. San Diego also helps support military deployments when necessary.īased on its size, capacity and available labor, it can take about two to four cargo vessels a month with various commodity types. It specializes in refrigerated cargo like fruit from Dole, which brings in 3 billion bananas a year, as well as automobiles, machinery, soda ash and project cargo like wind blades and lumber. The Port of San Diego, about 90 minutes south of Los Angeles-Long Beach by car, has also been accepting additional vessels since March. (Click here for a detailed view of how the Port of Hueneme is dealing with the new influx of container business.) Port of San Diego Increased arrivals of small charter ships, transshipment of Asia cargo through Central America and general cargo ride-alongs on the Chiquita and Del Monte fleet have boosted Hueneme’s container traffic this year. The port authority recently activated a joint use agreement with Navy Base Ventura County to handle some commercial vessels at its terminal within the port. Its core businesses are refrigerated imports, such as melons, mangoes and bananas - delivered by Chiquita, Del Monte and regional container line Sealand - and automobiles. ![]() ![]() Hueneme is located an hour’s drive north of the crowded Port of Los Angeles, the largest container port in the nation. In the past 12 months, exports are up 88% to $988 million and imports grew 25% to $8 billion, according to U.S. Here are five niche ports that became relief valves for container shipping in the past year: Port of HuenemeĬontainer volumes are at an all-time high, with imports more than double and exports up 135% for the first three quarters of the year versus 2020. (Breakbulk shipments, such as rolls of steel or wind turbine components, are too large to fit into standard shipping boxes and are individually loaded and secured on the vessel.) Some cargo owners and freight forwarders are bypassing the port congestion in major gateways by chartering small vessels, or using other tactics, to move containers to small ports that traditionally handle breakbulk, bulk and roll-on/roll-off cargoes. Major ports such as Oakland, California Seattle-Tacoma New York-New Jersey Savannah, Georgia Charleston, South Carolina Houston and Vancouver, British Columbia, have all experienced varying degrees of backlogs. Vessels are taking five days or more to unload, and importers and exporters are experiencing extensive delays to secure containers and the chassis to transport them. The Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex was the poster child for supply chain gridlock in 2021, with dozens of vessels scattered for miles off the coast waiting for a berth and piles of containers bringing landside cargo flow to a crawl.
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