[Prince of Space]

What does this mean to the average Joe?

[nesnah]

With all this transportin’ going on, Chasten will have to get a foot long while Petey is out there workin’ his buns off.

[GingisK]

Just in time for all of those empty containers.

[Theophilus]

Relevant to my interests

[ryderann]

The timing is off for these huge container ships. With world-wide inflation, and other severe problems, consumers will stop consuming...except for vital goods.

[Reno89519]

And hopefully none will be picking up and delivering products from China. I am curious to see how quickly we cut down commerce to and from China if facilities with Taiwan or others take place, we’ve already folded with Russia, allies, India, and China in regards to the Ukraine, will we continue directly doing business with China while our soldiers are in harms way?

[mass55th]

I was in my local Walmart this past Monday, and another shopper was looking through the packaged soft tortilla packages. He said: "Look at this," so I walked over, and he showed me several packages of soft tortilla shells, both small and large that were loaded with green mold. Package after package had mold all over the shells. We looked at the use by dates on the packages, and they were for May 2023. You have to wonder how long these things had been sitting in a non-refrigerated container or tractor trailer while being transported to the distribution centers, then distributed to the regional Walmarts.

I've bought Bob Evans family size mashed potatoes, and fresh-cut Simply Potatoes shredded hash browns at my local Price Chopper store that all had use by dates a month or two in the future, yet got them home to find mold on them. Simply Potatoes is produced by Bob Evans as well. I stopped buying Walmart's brand of fat-free coffee creamer, because it would go bad in my fridge a few weeks before the use by date. With the amount of money they are charging for food items these days, you have to be very careful, and check everything before throwing it in your basket.

[Rockingham]

Plausibly, the impending glut of container ships offer the US and her maritime allies that chance to bolster their sea lift capacity and develop new naval auxiliary vessels quickly and cheaply.

[Bull Snipe]

I would be willing to bet that not a single one of those ships was built in the United States.