A month ago, Texas poached the headquarters of Tesla Inc. from California. Now the state is trying to attract freight companies whose backlogs in Los Angeles and Long Beach, the two largest US ports, are close to the highest level in history.Texas Governor Greg Albert posted a 30-second video on Twitter on Monday, launching the “Escape from California” campaign.
He told the freight company that in less than two weeks, they could reroute the cargo to “a Texas cargo port operating 7×24.”
The promotional video said: “Choose a state that does not regard inflation and the backlog of the U.S. supply chain as a good thing. Fleeing California, everyone is doing it.”
The Port of Houston in Texas is the seventh busiest shipping hub in the United States and the largest on the Gulf Coast. It shipped approximately 320,000 containers in August, about one-third of the volume handled by Los Angeles that month.
Albert is not the first Republican governor to try to dig a corner in California. Last month, when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis visited Port of Jacksonville, the busiest port in the state, he also proposed using the state’s 15 seaports to help alleviate supply chain bottlenecks. Suggestions. He said that the local port “has been accustomed to 24-hour operation.”