Definitely not an expert in this field, but don't his solutions come off as a tad naive? Get the military to do this, get the railways to do that, build a temporary 500 acre yard, get ships to carry off containers somewhere. Surely he must understand that such large undertakings will have many consequences and cannot be "done" just like that. The solutions also seem to be sort of a band-aid, to create a temporary buffer until the situation somehow resolves on its own. But doesn't that only delay the inevitable as the buffers fill up again and they are left to deal with even greater number of empty containers, when the fundamental problem seems to be that nobody wants empty containers in the first place?

It feels like there is some missing incentive in the system somewhere, to get empty containers go to where they are needed, but businesses operating with their pre-pandemic, highly optimized models are slow to adapt. The biggest question of all though is that, is the shipping crisis even that big an issue to warrant such dramatic reactions? If indeed and there is political will to tackle it, this might better channeled to ramp up local industries to fill the gaps and reduce dependency on shipping in the first place. There is no better time to do it. The pandemic has shown clearly the risks of a globally coupled economy, and the shipping crisis is nothing compared to the environmental crisis that is on its way. But you wouldn't catch the owner of a shipping company say that.