Help May Soon Arrive To Clear Massive Backlog Of Empty Shipping Containers At Port Of Oakland

By Wilson Walker, CBS San Francisco:

OAKLAND (KPIX 5) – The backlog at the port of Oakland is about to get some help and some house cleaning with a plan to get empty containers filled with California exports.

“Basically, the idea is to get have all these empty containers in a place, where they are staged,” Marilyn Sandifur with the Port of Oakland told KPIX 5. “So they are readily accessible to those who need them to load them up for export.”

The backups at the port haven’t just delayed things Americans want from Asia. It has cost California farmers an estimated $2 billion as the tangled logjam of shipping containers has helped to cut exports out of California.

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