Logistics & Supply

With disruption or closure of important east-coast ports, product and resource imports destined for those ports would at first be cut off. In time, ships meant for east-coast ports would be redirected to more southern east-cost ports and to ports in the gulf: Texas, Louisiana, etc. This means complete disruption for a time, with some lag time before those products and resource imports would be restored. Possibly some would be ended for a time.

Land-based shipping, too, would be greatly disrupted for a while and some operations would be destroyed. Trucking companies and fleets would suffer total losses and others geographically removed from the affected areas would not be able to take up the slack in short order. So we must assume that pretty much anything coming from the east coast would be completely disrupted for a while and restoration would likely be at a trickle for a long time. Some things may simply no longer be available.

One of the primary disruptions that would hinder restoration would be damage to the electronic tracking and allocation systems that run the shipping and trucking fleets. We can only speculate on how resilient and distributed these systems are, and how quickly they could be restored, if at all. And this is in addition to the likely complete disruption to all online financial transacting.

What Products & Resources are Dedicated to East-Coast Import?

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