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More than 60 freighters and 500,000 containers are waiting offshore to be unloaded at California’s primary ports. Container backlogs are also peaking on the East Coast. The New York and New Jersey ports have a record number of anchored ships.
Everyone in the lifecycle of container shipping — the ports, steamships, freight forwarders, warehouses, motor carriers and railroads — feel mounting pressure to remove bottlenecks and inland congestion.
With more than 15 years of experience in the intermodal business, David Dvinov compares the first mile of inland container delivery to a black hole. Port terminals are the event horizon, with inefficiencies coming from drayage and other players creating gravitational pull.
Most dray carriers are small operators that use manual processes like faxes, texts, instant messages, and phone calls to complete tasks associated with picking up, delivering, and returning containers to ports, he said.
Six years ago, Dvinov co-founded DapeCon, an intermodal trucking company in Linden, N.J., with fellow business partners Leonardo Cancela and Eugene Karp. The trio had previously launched a freight forwarding, container transloading and warehousing business, Dapex, in 2005.
