My fellow researcher Michael Soto went to this event and I quized him on the top five issues. They are:
- While needed, environmental, labor and security issues are slowing down much needed port expansion projects.
- Logistics education is a big problem, there are not enough qualified workers to replace the older and more experienced workers.
- Programs at being started at the high school level to train workers and get people interested in a career in logistics.
- Tighter labor security issues are decreasing the pool of available workers.
- Long term forecasts of container volume at the port is very difficult, since so many variables and contingencies are involved.
- 1/3rd of the goods that enter the port are for local consumption, the rest is exported to the rest of the country.
Here is a link to the PDF.
There is a lot of good information in this report, you can see the trade volume of various goods entering the port, which country the goods are coming from, employment growth etc.
Something a little troubling in the report:
With the shifting trends in international trade flows, such as the move to more
all-water service to the U.S. east coast, business leaders in the Riverside-San
Bernardino area are suffering a touch of angst about future development
potential.
Sad but true: We need that port.
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