From the San Francisco Business Journal:
The Port of Oakland has a major backlog of empty shipping containers from now-bankrupt South Korean shipping company Hanjin, which is preventing the port from freeing up those chassis bases for other shipments.
“Port of Oakland has about 900 Hanjin empties right now and we anticipate another 300 to 400 more before the carrier stops bringing cargo to Oakland,” Mike Zampa, communications director for the port, told local CBS affiliate KPIX.
“The empties will sit here until the bankruptcy proceedings in Seoul mare resolved. That could be two to three years,” Zampa said.