Maybe the problem is not the clean-air legislation preventing most trucks from working.
Maybe the problem is simpler. From Reuters:
California ports, key to U.S. supply chain, among world's least efficient, ranking shows
Southern California's Los Angeles and Long Beach ports handle the most ocean cargo of any ports in the United States, but are some of the least efficient in the world, according to a ranking by the World Bank and IHS Markit.
In a review of 351 container ports around the globe, Los Angeles was ranked 328, behind Tanzania's Dar es Salaam and Alaska's Dutch Harbor. The adjacent port of Long Beach came in even lower, at 333, behind Turkey's Nemrut Bay and Kenya's Mombasa, the groups said in their inaugural Container Port Performance Index published in May.
Again, they looked at 351 container ports and Los Angeles was near the bottom at 328. Long Beach was at 333.
The two ranking agencies are here:
IHS Markit
New Global Container Port Performance Index (CPPI) Launched by the World Bank and IHS Markit
East Asian container ports are the most efficient in the world and dominate the Top 50 spots of the new global Container Port Performance Index (CPPI) launched by the World Bank and IHS Markit.
Yokohama in Japan tops the ranking, ahead of King Abdullah Port in Saudi Arabia and Qingdao in China.
Algeciras in Spain is the highest ranked European port, in 10th place overall. Colombo in Sri Lanka is the top-ranked port in South Asia at 17th place, and Mexico's Lazaro Cardenas leads the Americas at 25th.
Canada's Halifax is the only other North American port in the Top 50. Djibouti, in 61st place, is the top-ranked African port.
And The World Bank:
Asian Ports Dominate Global Container Port Performance Index
Asian container ports are the most efficient in the world, dominating the Top 50 spots according to the new global Container Port Performance Index (CPPI) launched by the World Bank and IHS Markit. The report scored ports against different metrics, making the efficiency ranking comparable around the globe by assessing and standardizing for different ship sizes and container moves per call. The CPPI is intended to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement that will benefit stakeholders from shipping lines to national governments to consumers.
More than four-fifths of global merchandise trade by volume are carried by sea, and approximately 35 percent of total volumes and over 60 percent of commercial value is shipped in containers.
Meanwhile, our Secretary of Transportation is doing fsck-all, playing hide the bologna with his husband, "nursing" their two new children and just returning to work after a two-month paid maternity leave. If President Trump were in office, heads would be rolling right now.
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