Florida opened up all their ports a couple of weeks ago, didn't they? I haven't heard about large numbers of ships hanging out in commifornia since then.
The supply chain issues isn't as simple as backed up ships. There a fewer people working and that is going to cause material scarcity that's greater than it was before. We have more people consuming than producing. And that means if the US's production is less but it's consumption remains the same, that imports have to go up. And if there is less staff at ports it will be hard processing that.
But in general material scarcity is down stream from labor scarcity which hasn't been resolved.
But most consumers are shielded from it to the extent businesses can help it because they do everything they can to not inconvenience you. But in b2b markets it takes way more effort to get supplies than it did before and that's been going on for a very long time. It just finally spilled over to the consumer for the last couple months.
'Opened up'?? They were never closed
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