The Port of Los Angeles waited for a record 100 ships, and Biden threatened to dispatch the National Guard

Neither President Biden nor anyone thought of it.

The port congestion in Los Angeles has been going on for a long time, and the most profound feeling of cross-border e-commerce is the soaring and high price of maritime transport in China and the United States. Not long ago, US President Biden personally came forward to negotiate with the head of the Port of Los Angeles, and finally persuaded the port to start 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in order to alleviate port congestion, and then alleviate the supply chain obstruction and high prices in the United States.

Everyone thought that as Los Angeles port workers began to work overtime, port congestion would gradually improve. But the reality is often cruel, pressing the gourd scoop, on the one hand, the shortage of truck drivers makes it impossible to ship the unloaded goods out of the port in time, and on the other hand, many cargo owners do not actively work overtime late at night to transport their goods. The goods are still stuck in the port, and there is no place to take on the goods if they want to unload the ship.

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As of Oct. 18, the number of cargo ships blocking the port of Los Angeles was another record high of 100, and Kip Louttit, head of the Southern California Maritime Exchange, said that the highest record at those ports before the epidemic was only 17 waiting to anchor.

According to foreign media, US President Joe Biden once threatened to send the National Guard to act as a truck driver to help the port transport the accumulated cargo. However, U.S. public opinion does not seem to buy it, and some people are not without ridicule, saying that the use of National Guards to drive trucks is "not reliable at all" because truck drivers need a lot of professional skills and safety training. Others say the President of the United States simply does not have the power to mobilize the National Guard, because that is the power of the state government.

It seems that China's cross-border e-commerce still can not be optimistic about the shipping timeliness and prices, americans still do not seem to find an effective way to really mobilize the national force to solve the problem of supply chain tension that has threatened the order of life of all Americans, this is not a simple supply chain problem, behind it reflects the leadership of President Biden, but also reflects the decline in American trust in the federal government after Trump's operation.

The city on top of the mountain is slowly falling.