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Friday, January 16, 2015

Goods held hostage in West Coast port battle

LOS ANGELES -- Row after row of shipping containers are piling up dockside at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. A billion dollars of new cargo comes through here every day - and just sits.

Brian Jablon runs Stansport, a company that supplies camping gear to businesses including: Amazon, Target, and Home Depot.

"Right now, there are 32 containers we have sitting out in the ocean we're waiting to get in the door," Jablon told me.

Lisa Foster is running into the same problem. She owns One Bag at a Time, which sells reusable shopping bags to retail stores.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

oh no, how am I gonna get all that crap from china? guess I'll just have to do without! how terrible!

Anonymous said...

5:33-You have me thinking.Maybe there's a silver lining here somewhere.Maybe,just maybe American made goods will make a comeback.Necessity is still the mother of invention.

Anonymous said...

I've seen this happen years ago. anyone who wants to make some real good money fast go to union hireing hall and hire on as an extra, as soon as all the union members are hired they will take anybody who is physically fit.of course you have to be in LA but it might be worth the trip.