Birmingham Vicksburg Carthage Santa Teresa Flagstaff San Diego Los Angeles Read about the many ways businesses across the southern U.S. are affected when the flow of goods clots at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Follow a container of board games from China to St. Louis to see all the delays it encounters along the way.For generations after industrialists began digging iron ore, coal and lime out of the low mountains of north-central Alabama in the 1870s, Birmingham was a steel town, with fiery furnaces belching thick smoke that darkened the sky.
“I couldn’t pass all that on to the consumer, so I lost money on that job,” he said, adding that it wasn’t a one-off issue. “I had containers sitting in the dock in California for three months this spring.”Just before lunch, I went with Forsyth to the Lawler Foundry, a local metal distributor on Birmingham’s east side. He’s there so often picking up supplies that the warehouse workers and office staff all know his name.
Meanwhile, funerals have continued, but for the first time since the Sharps took ownership of the property, the cemetery has had to install cement headstones as place markers while granite remains on backorder.