Inland port priority

The Indicator from Planet Money

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4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Disruptive backlogs at west coast ports in the U.S. have caused some shippers to get creative with their routes. Today, we tell you why one vessel took the long route from Shanghai to Cleveland, Ohio.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:11.0	This is the Indicator from PlatinumMoney, I'm Darien Woods.
0:14.0	And we are joined today by Dustin Dwyer from Michigan Radio.
0:17.0	Welcome.
0:18.0	Hey Darien, good to have you.
0:19.0	It's great to be here.
0:20.0	So I wanted to come on to tell you about this journey I heard about.
0:24.0	And I brought a globe with me.
0:26.0	I love it.
0:27.0	All right, so we start at Shanghai, China.
0:31.0	Yep, right on the coast.
0:32.0	You're going to go all the way across the Pacific Ocean on your little imaginary cargo ship.
0:37.0	Yep.
0:38.0	And you're going to head like you're going to go to Los Angeles.
0:40.0	But as you know, the port of Los Angeles is backed up.
0:42.0	So we're going to find an alternative port to go to.
0:45.0	So go south.
0:46.0	And you know where the Panama Canal is.
0:48.0	Oh, yeah.
0:49.0	You're going to take that.
0:50.0	Once you get through that, you're going to head up the east coast.
0:52.0	But don't stop.
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