President Joe Biden cited progress in addressing the U.S. supply chain crisis
Biden said delivery of products is also showing improvement. He noted that, “delivery times for this season for FedEx, UPS, and the U.S. Postal Service are faster than before the pandemic, even as Americans have purchased a record amount of goods. This is in part due to the progress we’ve made at our nation’s ports, which are now moving historic amounts of goods.”He claimed credit for reducing the backlog at two of the country’s busiest ports.
“In fact, right now, the number of containers moving through our ports is higher than ever. It’s because we’ve sped up — we — because when I sat down and talked with the folks running the ports and the longshoremen, they agreed to speed up every step in the process: the ports, the trains, the trucking.”told Biden, “As you reported, Los Angeles and Long Beach, which together are 40 percent of the imports to America, are moving record volumes of goods.
“At the Port of Long Beach, since mid-October, the dwell times for those containers has dropped from 12 days to 5 days; that’s 140 percent improvement. And in Los Angeles, from nine days to four days — 125 percent improvement.
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