El presidente Joe Biden anunció que el puerto de Los Ángeles operaría las 24 horas del día para aliviar un cuello de botella logístico que ha dejado a decenas de portacontenedores inactivos frente a la costa de California y a los estadounidenses esperando más tiempo para fabricar productos en el extranjero.
Los estibadores trabajarán durante la noche y los principales minoristas y compañías navieras se han comprometido a retirar la carga de los muelles más rápido, cambios que están destinados a acelerar el flujo de juguetes, productos electrónicos y otros obsequios a las puertas de los Estados Unidos durante la temporada navideña.
“El anuncio tiene el potencial de cambiar las reglas del juego”, dijo Biden al reconocer que a la gente le preocupa si todo, desde “tostadoras, zapatillas de deporte, bicicletas y muebles de dormitorio”, estaría disponible.
Container ships at the ports of Los Angeles on Wednesday.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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Container ships are unloaded at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach while other vessels wait offshore.
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Container ships wait to unload.
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A sailboat passes one of the container ships sitting off the coast of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
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Containers are unloaded from a docked ship.
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Container ships wait offshore.
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A truck driver checks his cargo as the Port of Los Angeles is set to begin operating around the clock.
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Cargo trucks wait in long lines to enter the port.
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Cargo ships wait to enter the port on Wednesday in San Pedro,
Carolyn Cole is a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times. Her coverage of the civil crisis in Liberia won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Cole has been named U.S. newspaper photographer of the year three times. Cole grew up in California and Virginia, before attending the University of Texas, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She went on to earn a master of art’s degree from Ohio University.
Jason Armond is a staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times. A native of North Carolina, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received a bachelor’s in media and journalism. His work as a photographer and videographer has been recognized by the Hearst Journalism Awards, the White House News Photographers Assn. and the North Carolina College Media Assn. As a freelance visual journalist, his work has been featured in several publications before joining The Times.
Photojournalist Allen J. Schaben began his career at the Los Angeles Times shortly after he earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism with minors in art and psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1994.
