As Many As 500K Shipping Containers Could Be Waiting Off Ports Of LA, Long Beach

(Los Angeles, CA) — Cargo ships continue to arrive off the Southern California coast despite shelves remaining empty. Officials say there could be as many as half a million shipping containers on cargo ships off the ports of LA and Long Beach, waiting to be offloaded. The ports recently broke several records for the number of ships they had at shore, as well as for the number of ships waiting to dock. This is being blamed on a number of factors including the surge of the Delta variant throughout the world, lack of access to vaccines in some countries and a shortage of shipping containers. Many experts say they expect shipping problems to last for months, possibly years.