Port City Bumper

03/23/2022

It comes with a heavy heart that I announce the official closing of a company started in 1979. Before buying it, I worked as an employee and the outside salesman. It’s a very sad time here….. who am I kidding ?? I’ll be doing what ever the hell I want while you suckers keep workin your ass off. !!!

03/09/2022

I’m not a smart man, I’m tired. I think I’ll just close the doors.

03/09/2022

Port City Bumper President still standing by his announcement that the company will no longer do business with Russia. Further he said the company will cease doing business with any communist or dictator run country. In a interview last month President and CEO Chuck Sowell said,” this company will take a stand on the bully’s of the world and nation”. “ We will not do business world wide all the way down to locally if need be. Furthermore, the big box guy is just another bully if you ask me”, he added. Chuck has not been available for comment since that interview.

09/15/2021

09/15/2021

You can save these starving pickups. For just dollars a day you can provide these lil trucks with parts they desperately need to carry out to feel warm and loved. Wont you help?! Without some purpose these pickups will go unfilled and rust away. Your simple phone call, fax, email or text is all it takes. Please! Act now. The lines are open 8-5. Monday-Friday.

08/25/2021

Why is there a shortage of shipping containers?

The problem isn’t that there aren’t enough shipping containers in the world; it’s that the containers are in the wrong spots. “The story of the last 16 months is a growing container imbalance,” said Harvard Business School professor W***y Shih. “What you see is a messy buildup of containers in places where they’re not supposed to be.”

The pandemic is the main cause of their disarray. When the initial outbreak of Covid-19 forced China and many of its neighbors into national lockdowns at the end of 2019, the region’s massive manufacturing sector shut down. Cargo ships that were already en route out of Asia dropped off hundreds of thousands of containers full of goods in ports across the Americas—but because of pandemic restrictions, they couldn’t load those containers back up with new products to send back to Asia. Instead, the containers piled up in ports and inland rail depots.

By the end of 2020, trade came roaring back. Unable to spend their money on in-person services, consumers dumped their disposable income into buying manufactured goods. Global supply chains sputtered back to life. But now overwhelmed ports—like California’s massive Los Angeles/Long Beach port—struggled to load and unload containers fast enough to keep up with the crush of ships waiting just offshore. Many ships, already running behind schedule because of congestion at the ports, decided to leave their empty containers behind rather than wait days to load them back onboard. As containers continued to pile up at major import centers, their supply dwindled at major export hubs.

To make matters worse, in March a 20,000-container cargo ship called the Ever Given lodged itself sideways in the Suez Canal. The six-day blockage further gummed up the circulation of containers and exacerbated the shortage. Brian Sondey—the CEO of Triton, a company that buys shipping containers from manufacturers and leases them to shipping companies—said on an April earnings call that the canal blockage was “the icing on the cake” of a terrible year for supply chains.

08/20/2021

It’s not always easy to give parts away or sell them at cost. We can’t do it every time we are asked to. But once in a while you just have to suck it up and it feels good to help for a good cause. Thank you Boundry Street Collision for letting us do the the right thing.