Hapag-Lloyd CEO: COVID, congestion, container shortage form ‘perfect storm’

All eyes are on California’s San Pedro Bay. Hapag-Lloyd focused on the congestion crisis at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach during a virtual press conference conducted Thursday from Germany with media outlets around the globe. 

“Today there is fairly extreme port congestion,” Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen said, sharing an image crowded with dots representing ships anchored in San Pedro Bay waiting to berth. Jansen did not count the dots, but Port of LA Executive Director Gene Seroka...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hapag-lloyd-ceo:-covid-congestion-container-shortage-form-perfect-storm

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