“By staying open seven days a week, during the night and on the weekend, the Port of Los Angeles will be open over 60 extra hours a week,” he said.
Retailers such as Walmart had already been taking steps to alleviate the backlog.
Joe Metzger, executive vice president for supply chain operations at Walmart U.S., said the company has chartered ships and diverted shipments through less congested ports, and is hiring 20,000 people to fill permanent supply chain positions. It has also rerouted inland shipments and hired more than 3,000 drivers to try to accommodate the demand, he said.
“We have been laser-focused on inventory levels since the start of the pandemic and reported higher inventory in the second quarter this year than a year ago,” he said in a statement on the supply chain. “While we’d like to see inventory levels continue to improve, we’re on the right track.”
Willy Shih, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, said the logistics logjam is primarily pandemic induced. Automakers cut back orders in 2020 only to realize when demand ramped back up that they had cut back too far. COVID-19 outbreaks have shut down work at ports, and a shortage of warehouse workers and truck drivers has contributed to the problem. Even while all that’s occurring, e-commerce is on the rise.
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