Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.
Near the Port of Los Angeles, the largest seaport in the United States, there are cargo ships floating off the coast with hundreds of thousands of shipping containers waiting to be unloaded.
If hadn't been freed by tugboats, experts spoke of unloading the ship by erecting giant cranes or using helicopters while other ships would detour all the way around Africa.
We've talked about the back-up of the giant container ships waiting to unload in California. The problem here isn't the total clog like you might see in a sink, but more like a slow drain.
Whether fish are caught legally or illegally, they have to be brought to some port to be unloaded and sold. And a port is a good place for inspection to take place.
There's a backlog of products including 0.5 million containers on cargo ships waiting to be offloaded at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in California.
Dockworkers have refused to unload ships carrying Russian cargoes and oil majors have been worried about the hit to their reputations from accepting shipments.