The global supply chain issues really aren’t “new” news. The issue has been exhaustively covered both in the trade press as well as newspapers and on TV. And the problem isn’t specific to the US west coast. Pick a container port anywhere right now and there’s a back up.
It’s a shortage of ships, containers, dock workers in Asia, rail and terminal capacity here in North America and a truck driver shortage. And every industry trade article I’ve seen indicates the problems will persist well into 2022.
Our train orders are only one of a multitude of things either awaiting space on a ship in China, in containers on a ship awaiting berthing space in North America, in a container terminal in an east or west coast port awaiting space on a train, sitting in a container on a train awaiting ramp space here in the States or in a container stored at a ramp waiting for a drayman to pick it up. I spent 40 years in logistics and what we’re seeing now is analogous to “the perfect storm”. I wake up every morning thanking God and my last employer that I’m retired.
Be patient. As Dave notes, they’ll get here when they get here.
Curt
