The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration on Feb. 23 said that American ports facing backlogs will be given access to $450 million from the Biden Administration’s $1 trillion infrastructure act, as part of the White House’s attempts to ease the supply chain crisis and lower prices for consumers. The supply chain bottlenecks have slowed the flow…

Los Angeles and Long Beach ports and surrounding neighborhoods continued to struggle with empty shipping container pileups. Officials at the ports reported some progress clearing containers at the terminals but local police and neighborhoods continued to see trailers dumped into their streets. Long Beach Police officers have cited unattached trailers loaded with containers parked along…