Provide chain issues from ships to cabinets, by the numbers

“The pandemic is haunting the global supply chain and, by extension, customers,” two months earlier than what’s anticipated to be a giant vacation buying season, The Washington Post reports. Container ships are clogging ports, delivery prices are rising, and there is a dearth of truck drivers and warehouse staff. 

So issues might get a little bit tough for customers, retailers, and the chain of firms that transfer items from factories to ships to cabinets, however there are huge winners, too. This is a have a look at some illustrative numbers:

• 36 p.c — share of U.S. imports that move by means of the Los Angeles-Lengthy Seaside port advanced
• 75 — variety of container ships ready exterior the Port of Los Angeles on Thursday, according to Time’s Alana Semuels
• 40 — variety of container ships ready off California ports Sept. 1
• $20,586 — median value of delivery a typical container from China to the U.S. West Coast in September, twice the fee in July and 4 instances the fee in January, in response to the Freightos index
• 10.8 million — file variety of containers the Port of Los Angeles expects to deal with in 2021
• $23 billion — earnings booked by the 7 largest publicly traded ocean carriers within the first half of 2021, up from $1 billion a yr earlier
• 14th — World Financial institution rating for U.S. on transferring items effectively in 2018, out of 160 international locations
• 0 – 50 — variety of vans arriving to select up containers throughout in a single day shifts at Lengthy Seaside, regardless of 24/7 openings, according to freight logistics firm Flexport
• 90 p.c — turnover charge at some trucking firms within the final quarter of 2020
• 25 miles — size freight trains have been backed up making an attempt to enter Union Pacific’s huge International 4 delivery facility in Joliet, Illinois, over the summer season
• 500 — variety of soccer fields that would slot in the International 4 facility
• 17 – days it takes for a container chassis to depart that Union Pacific facility and return for one more container, up from regular 3.5 days
• 31,000 — workers on Union Pacific’s payroll, greater than a 3rd fewer than 2015
• 1 million — toys from Amazon’s vacation record offered by Oct. 13, 9 weeks earlier than Christmas
• $1.3 trillion — projected 2021 U.S. vacation retail gross sales, up 7-9 p.c from 2020, according to Deloitte
• $785 — quantity the typical shopper is projected to spend on the 2021 vacation season, in response to NPD

Sources: The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time