The people who run the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are developing plans to work together to help themselves and the companies who do business at the harbor alleviate congestion around the waterfront.
That’s the word from Michael Christensen, appointed as the Port of Long Beach’s new senior executive for supply chain management in February. Christensen, who was the keynote speaker Tuesday during the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce’s World Trade Week Luncheon, said the twin ports plan to make a formal announcement soon revealing more specifics.
Christensen noted that shipping companies’ moves to control their own costs, such as forming alliances between carriers, moving goods on bigger ships and divesting themselves of the trailers that truck drivers need to haul the containers, have exacerbated the congestion problem.
