Opening the Southern California ports 24 hours a day, seven days a week has not helped to ease the supply chain crisis, some port officials and dock workers say. In October 2021, a presidential task force asked the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to open around the clock to increase the hours and capacity that carriers and truckers could use to remove containers from the overloaded docks. President Joe Biden estimated the expanded times would allow the Port of Los Angeles to move goods 25 percent faster at night. While the port of Los Angeles and Long Beach ramped up multiple efforts to move cargo, including creating a program called Accelerate Cargo LA, the expanded hours have had minimal impact. Port terminals have always operated about 18 hours a day, according to a Port of LA spokesman. The shifts are from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and from …