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>>Many companies have been affected by the “dock problem” and the end is nowhere in sight. We get daily updates to let us know how things are doing. If we do not get our parts from Japan, we have to shut down the production line and then you have 5500 people at our factory without work.
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>When I was in LA last week, my hotel room had just been remodeled (I was the first guest to stay in it). The hotel manager apologized for the old carpet. She told me they couldn't install new carpet because it was on a ship waiting to be off-loaded.

It is interesting how many lives the dock/port problem has touched.