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[quote user="edblysard"] No David,Ships at anchor and awaiting a berth are not in the purview or under control of the railroads management...if your ship is delayed for its berth time, that is the problem of the local port authority...and unloading delays are the direct responsibility of the stevedore company, who, like the port authority, don't work for the railroad.Just like the City of Houston, the Cities of Long Beach and LA own, operate and manage their docks...not the railroad.If you had read at least one or two newspapers, maybe even watched the national news once in a while, you would have read or heard about several cities attempting to sell/turn management and part ownership of their port operation and docks/ intermodal facilities over to a group of Saudi investors... But that's ok, everyone here already knows you dislike railroads, how they are run and managed, what they do, and what you wish they would do.We understand you are going to cast railroads, BNSF in particular, in a disparaging light, even at the expense of facts and reality. If they were to deliver the Flat Earth Weekly directly to your doorstep, you would still complain, it is who you are and what you do.[/quote]Again, saving this one for the moderator - once again it is Ed B who initiates the personal attacks.What Ed is oblivious to is the fact that it takes more than twice as long to load a double stack train as it does a single stack train, and the longer the train the longer the wait to get it loaded and out of the yard.  It is this dedication to the long slow concept that is causing all the delays at ports.  Again, double stack is good for the railroads in a circumspect way, but is bad for the supply chain.  The ships are having to wait precisely because of the way railroads operate in the port cities.  For proof, look at the European port operations - their port congestion problems are much less becaue the open access railroads are very expedient, using mostly short fast single stack trains.  (Yeah, I'm sure we'll get a note from John B with an example or two of just the opposite, notwithstanding.)Hey, that's all right!  Everyone knows that the Class I's hate the USA, otherwise why would they continue to subsidize imports on the backs of domestic shippers?[;)]  And frankly, BNSF is it's own worst enemy on the PR front with the hard wired arrogance it displays toward American rail shippers.  That's fact, that's reality, and there's nothing disparaging about pointing this out.
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