{"id":61589,"date":"2022-01-21T07:39:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T12:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61589"},"modified":"2022-01-21T07:39:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T12:39:27","slug":"imports-take-dramatically-longer-to-reach-us-as-bottlenecks-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61589","title":{"rendered":"Imports take \u2018dramatically longer\u2019 to reach US as bottlenecks bite"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Imports take \u2018dramatically longer\u2019 to reach US as bottlenecks bite<\/a><\/h3>\n

Indicators on trans-Pacific delivery time are all trending in the wrong direction<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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\u00a0Port of Long Beach (Photo: Shutterstock\/Gagliard Photography)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Planning to import goods from Asia by ocean and sell them in America this summer? Better act fast. The trans-Pacific cargo move can now take over three months. According to multiple sources, average transit times have risen to double pre-COVID levels \u2014 and they\u2019re still increasing.<\/p>\n

Methodologies and data sources differ, so time estimates vary. But each dataset shows the same trend: With every passing month, more vessels, container equipment and goods inventories are getting waylaid in the Pacific.<\/p>\n

Flexport<\/strong><\/p>\n

Flexport launched its weekly\u00a0Ocean Timeliness Indicator (OTI)<\/a>\u00a0in early December. The OTI uses data from Flexport\u2019s freight forwarding customers back to March 2019, measuring the time from the cargo-ready date at the exporters\u2019 gate to the date when products leave the destination port (i.e., the landside transport time from the factory to the port in Asia, the Asian port wait, the ocean journey, and the North American port wait). The OTI is an average for loads from all Asian countries to all North American ports on any of the three coasts.<\/p>\n

Flexport\u2019s Asia-U.S. OTI reached an all-time high of 114 days last week. That\u2019s 41 days or 57% higher than at the same time last year, and 63 days or 125% higher than at the same time in 2020, pre-COVID.<\/p>\n

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Chart: American Shipper based on data from Flexport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A shipment time is not included in the average until the import cargo leaves the U.S. port, meaning the indicator is retrospective. Goods included in the average in the first week of January might have left an Asian factory in early October,\u00a0at a time when the queue of waiting ships off Los Angeles\/Long Beach was around 40% smaller<\/a>\u00a0than it is now.<\/p>\n

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Imports take \u2018dramatically longer\u2019 to reach US as bottlenecks bite Indicators on trans-Pacific delivery time are all trending in the wrong direction \u00a0Port of Long Beach (Photo: Shutterstock\/Gagliard Photography) Planning to import goods from Asia by ocean and sell them in America this summer? Better act fast. The trans-Pacific cargo move can now take over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32524,31945,2520,32493,3237,827],"class_list":["post-61589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-frieghtwaves","tag-greg-miller","tag-imports","tag-supply-chain-bottlenecks","tag-supply-chains","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61590,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61589\/revisions\/61590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}