Shortages drive prices up, the cargoes just get more and more valuable the longer they’re held up so there’s little incentive to fix the issue. Corrupt NY and LA as the gatekeepers.
Notice how die hard Free Traitors like Bert never comment on these “shipping” threads.
That pure 1970s era Marist dogm wihotu a clue of a hint of a notion of a fact.
The manufacturers invoice the buyers when the goods ship. They see no profit from their being stuck on ships.
They also lose ground because of the 80-20 rule. You never put all your procurment eggs in one basket. You spread about 20% around to secondary suppliers. So if a mythical business is “sitting on supply” it customers are busy shifting their purchasing to their 2d and 3rd level providers. All the hording business is doing is losing market share and thus profits.
While those ships are off shore the crews still have to be paid, the owners of the goods still have to pay their financing for their plants and equipment, the workers have to be paid etc etc etc. All of that outgo is not being balanced by income while those goods sit stuck on ships.
The same problem for the domestics disruption. All their bills still have to be paid while no income comes in because they do not have any goods to sell. So all this disruption is a cost for business that will never be off set by inflation on prices
This lie about the “supply chain being choked by bad actors” is just Biden Democrat public relations nonsense designed to deflect and distract attention off the logical consequences of the US Fed’s easy money and Us Fed Government’s out of control spending polices.
Hadn’t thought of that. It also serves to help squeeze out competition, which then frees up the top end of pricing.