Just as retailers are starting to gear up for the holiday season, there are warnings of a possible nationwide shipping logjam.
A shortage of rail workers, not enough rail cars and importers failing to pick up their goods are causing cargo to pile up once again at the Port of Los Angeles — "There are about 35,000 containers that are designated for rail on our docks right now," he said."A normal day looks more like 9,000 units."
Ben Nolan, an analyst specializing in transportation at Stifel Financial, said that over the last three years, railroads have lost 20% of their employees. Nolan said railroads tried to streamline operations with a practice called"precision scheduled railroading," which sometimes uses shorter trains.
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