The delays are happening at every interface. The port of LA/LB is the busiest port in north America and has dozens and dozens of container ships anchored off the coast waiting to unload. Even if they unloaded the ships today they couldn't move the containers off the terminal holding facilities since freight rail and freight trucking is at capacity. This is why caltrans has been desperate to widen freeways leading to the port and link the 710 in Pasadena, and to expand the alameda freight rail corridor. Freeway widening doesn't help commute times any but it leads to more trucks per hour leaving the port due to the increased throughput, which is only going to get busier over the next century.
From my understanding, the direct delays are resolved (ships are moving normally through the canal) but there are global delays that could be indirectly caused by the Ever Given or lots of other issues (understaffing at ports, closed ports in China due to COVID, high shipping demand, etc.). It’s hard to say whether the current delays would be a lot better if the Ever Given incident hadn’t occurred, although they presumably would be at least somewhat better.
The delays caused by that specific blockage may have been resolved, but overall shipping delays continue to rise, as they were even before Ever Given. One big driver for that is ports being closed in China due to workers getting sick with Delta, but also just general lack of manpower related to the quarantine.
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