Cause and effect is a primary cause for inflation
As demand for an item remains constant and supply constricted
the price must rise until demand and supply are met. If the supply is temporary then price can remain were demand was met and in a free trade market conditions. If.supply out weighs demand then price can be deflated.
Hence manufactured goods.
Our supply of everything is made over seas. Most toys machines games and everything else Christmas related is made in Asia . so shipping has now been reduced to a trickle. Why cause we don't have enough staff to off load goods at the dock.
Over the past week, the queue of ships waiting to unload at the ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach have lengthened by 10 ships. On Friday, the ports had 65 cargo ships stuck at anchor or in drift areas waiting for spots to open up to dock and unload. The ports, which are a primary thoroughfare for key imports between Asia and the US, had 147 ships in the locations, including 95 hulking cargo ships on Friday — both new records.
Amazon has now begun shipping via cargo jets as a weigh to circulate the ports.
Amazon
shopping for used long-range Boeing Co. and Airbus SE cargo planes, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest evidence of the e-commerce giant’s ambitions to move products across borders itself.
Amazon is in the market for refurbished cargo versions of one of the largest twin-engine passenger jets currently flying, Boeing’s 777-300ER, along with conversions of Airbus’s popular A330-300 wide-body aircraft, said the people, who requested anonymity to discuss confidential matters. Both models are a step up from the mid-size Boeing 767 aircraft that have served as the backbone of Amazon’s fleet for five years.
Converted Boeing 777s would let Amazon directly import products from China and other countries, the people said, stepping up the company’s rivalry with United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp. A refurbished cargo version of the 777 passenger plane -- dubbed the 777-300ERSF -- will enter service next year. It will hold 25% more volume than Boeing’s existing freighter and is emerging as an heir to the planemaker’s hump-backed 747 jumbos that have hauled goods across the North Pacific for decades..
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Ahead of the holiday season, officials are warning of possible shipping delays as ports on the mainland deal with a backlog and the U.S. Postal Service undergoes change.
One of the country’s largest ports will start operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week to catch up with a massive shipping backlog.
Ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California account for 40% of all shipping containers entering the U.S.
The port at Long Beach has been operating 24/7 for the past three weeks. Now that the Port of Los Angeles will do the same, it will nearly double its unloading hours.
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