The Stafford Act allows federal troops and equipment to be used domestically in times of natural disaster. You can tie the dock mess to a disaster.
We put a man on the moon. We left billions in heavy equipment in Afghanistan. We spend $650bn a year on our military. We can figure out how to get those containers on the ground and moved out to their destinations.
Shelves are only going to get more and more empty as people start buying for the holidays.