A reporter rented a boat and toured the Los Angeles/Long Beach Ports to find out the root cause of the problem (brilliant!). The biggest issue is that empty shipping containers are clogging the space, limiting the ability to offload new goods. He said in 3 hours he only saw a dozen containers offloaded. Of the more than 100 cranes, only 7 were operating. Read about it here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1451543776992845834.html **POTENTIAL SOLUTION:** Since space is limited in the Long Beach area to store the empty containers, take them to Anaheim, which is less than 15 miles away: Someone contact Angels Stadium in Anaheim and lease the parking lot. Since baseball season is over for the Angels, they will have plenty of space. Stage a drop off area for empty containers (fence it in so it's secure). Have the truckers load and drive the empty containers to Angels Stadium (or possibly send them by rail for pickup in Anaheim). (Someone will need to rent or move a few cranes to offload the containers.) Leave the containers there and then have truckers return to pick them up and deliver them to the rightful owners (shipping firms) as soon as space is available. San Diego solution: If it could be arranged, ships traveling back east with empty containers could be staged in the San Diego port. And those empty containers driven down the 405 (at night when there is no traffic) for offload. Not sure how those contracts might work, but SD should have more capacity than Long Beach. Right now it costs cargo ships $135-$150K a day to sit waiting for space in Long Beach. Any solution that expedites the handling of containers would more than be offset by the cost savings.