Naked Capitalism has this great post Why the US Supply Chain Crisis Is Intractable and Will Get Worse

Readers bwilli123 and Carolinian flagged a must read post by Ryan Johnson, I’m A Twenty Year Truck Driver, I Will Tell You Why America’s “Shipping Crisis” Will Not End. You really really really need to consume it in its entirely. It makes a detailed, cogent case as to why the America’s ports are a mess and why there is no simple and even not so simple way out. No wonder Pete Buttigieg is in hiding, um, on paternity leave, rather than putting his hands on the supply chain tar baby.
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Now the labor shortages are only one part of the problem, but the point is that this is more addressable than Johnson suggests if you assume a muscular government. That alternative likely did not occur to Johnson since it has been absent during his professional life, except to save the banking system during the financial crisis and mainly the well off in March 2020. It might take six weeks to two months to see across the board improvements in manning levels, while doing nothing assures more trucker attrition.

I have seen one network news story that goes anywhere near this issue. That story concluded that if we clear the ports, we are then faced with a warehouse bottleneck.