West Coast Ports Not Expecting a Single Ship From China

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Not a single cargo ship has left China in the past 12 hours, something that hasn’t happened since the pandemic.

Six days ago, 41 vessels were scheduled to depart China for the San Pedro Bay Complex, which encompasses both the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach in California. On Friday, there were none.

Officials are not only concerned with the lack of cargo ships leaving China, but with the speed in which the number has dropped.

REPORTER: But we're seeing as a result that ports here in the US, the traffic has really slowed and now thousands of dockworkers are truck drivers are worried about their jobsTRUMP: That means we lose less money … when you say it slowed down, that's a good thing, not a bad thing

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-05-08T15:31:29.479Z

“We are now seeing numbers in excess of what we witnessed in the pandemic” for cancellations and fewer vessel arrivals, according to Mario Cordero, the CEO of the Port of Long Beach.

“If things don’t change quickly, I’m talking about the uncertainty that we’re seeing, then we may be seeing empty products on the shelves. This is now going to be felt by the consumer in the coming 30 days,” said Cordero.

On Wednesday, the Port of Seattle said it had zero container ships in the port, another anomaly that hasn’t happened since the pandemic.

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The meetings between top U.S. and Chinese officials in Geneva represent the first potential efforts to end a trade war that has frazzled financial markets.

— NPR (@npr.org) 2025-05-10T18:05:41.646Z

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