Of boats and boxes

Planet Money

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🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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We take a trip to ports on the east and west coasts to ask what's on everyone's mind: why are they so clogged? And how can we fix it? | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:06.3	So the ports are clogged.
0:08.6	By now we have all heard this.
0:10.8	So Erica, you went to see what's actually going on.
0:14.8	Alright.
0:15.8	Testing.
0:17.3	123.
0:18.3	Port of Los Angeles.
0:21.6	I was driving over here and I had this thought, what if I missed the port?
0:26.1	And it is literally impossible to miss the port.
0:28.5	It's like its own city out there.
0:32.2	It's wild.
0:33.2	Was it bananas?
0:34.2	Yes.
0:35.2	Lots of ships just idling at sea.
0:37.6	There were thousands of containers and all these trucks.
0:41.6	There's more stuff coming in than they can move.
0:44.4	So as busy as it was, it's not busy enough.
0:47.7	It's just piling up.
0:50.0	So I guess we had some questions.
0:53.5	Where did all these containers come from?
0:55.6	Why is this port so big?
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