Posted on 10/04/2021 3:52:37 AM PDT by Chickensoup
Please Explain. Exactly Why Do We Have a Shipping Crisis?
Fixed it.
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.
If the USA was 100% self sufficient, which it could be easily, then the USA would not need one shipping port.
Notice how die hard Free Traitors like Bert never comment on these “shipping” threads.
Depends. Is the govt offering too much perhaps? Know of a business that cant get anyone to wash cars for $15/hr. Is the business offering too low?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/deep-ship-deep-dive-supply-chain-crisis
There are a lot of reasons. This sums them up nicely.
What BobL said, makes sense to me.
We are burning through inventory in the country, now. There’s still crap on the shelves because it was already here. There would be mass panic if people new that no more was coming. Instead, there is relative calm, while we set ourselves up for a crisis of scarcity. China could just call all of the ships back, at that point, whatever was in them, and watch America burn.
It does sound possible, to me. The ships may or may not have Chinese make-work junk in them, but I could see how China would like the scenario.
“the reason the ships aren’t unloaded is because the containers are empty,”
Why would that happen? Couldn’t we tell that because the ships would be higher in the water?
Cyber incident targets Texas facility
Note the bit about port operations.
The government has been manipulating IT wages downward for 30 years. No sympathy from me. Pay up for employers or go out of business. Buck up employers...
Understand, it’s a manufactured crisis.
IMHO, it’s to facilitate the “Great Reset” on a global scale. Fostering an economic disruption/collapse of society, to be saved by a new world order, establishing a new unified currency (crypto), thereby demanding dependency on the new government for everything.
Is that to far fetched? Perhaps, perhaps not... just assess the mandates, restrictions and bills put forth that contain verbiage that would abolish numerous freedoms and rights, backed by a complicit judiciary system.
“If the USA was 100% self sufficient, which it could be easily, then the USA would not need one shipping port”
Yes they would. Still have to export.
Wow how stupid is that? If the China us us off then the USA finally gets the best reason of all to bring industry back. It would be a great thing and not a catastrophe at all.
Check out the first one, submarine related, and note the bit on ports. As well as the interesting timing.
The basic problem on the west coast is government. My son works the ports as a contractor moving goods for the Port of Tacoma.
In California, they have ships fully loaded with goods and are forced to anchor outside the ports because of unloading problems. The ships stretch from Long Beach to just south of San Francisco, the entire coast.
The state, Newsome, has forced a total sanitizing of areas and equipment at each shift change which takes hours to accomplish and has thus extended the unloading wait at each change. They currently have so many ships on the coast they can’t even anchor them. Anchoring these container ships requires around 250 feet of water. Every possible location is filled and they are free floating hundreds of ships starting at Dana Point where the drop off starts to deeper water.
So the product is there. But Newsome has established such a ridiculous over reacted standard for the ports they can’t do that and off load the ships suitably so they back up.
There’s product out there. It just is being held up at the ports for political reasons. And now they have such a backup problem in time the goods will stop coming with no place to go and the manufacturers and logistic people will take it elsewhere and less of it. And as the expense is getting astronomical, it will be passed on to the consumer. This will put people under the thumb of government and produce more tax money and unemployment. Another covid first?
wy69
“Why would that happen? Couldn’t we tell that because the ships would be higher in the water?”
I was thinking that. They still have to carry containers, since there’s literally nowhere to store them (just as there’s only dock space for 10%, at most, of the ships).
As to waterline levels, certainly higher if empty, but how much higher. The containers aren’t exactly feather-weights, but I can envision a lot of cargo being lightweight (and some cargo being very heavy). It might not be that much difference in displacement.
The things that gets me suspicious are the following:
1. Huge blackouts across China
2. The virus on the downswing in the US and most of the world.
3. No real reason for shortages now, where shortages would have made much more sense 6 months ago when the US opened up, back when many thought the vaccines were real.
It just doesn’t add up to me...why now?
As the governments strives to achieve equity, it creates a massive disincentive to work, and especially, to excel.
As the Economy enters the socialist death spiral, the government comes with more orders, regulations and punishments. Blames hoarders and speculators. Arrests nonconformists. Prints money.
Lines starts to form, people start to starve. Nobody cares about anything, but where to get something to eat.
Looking forward to it!
The above reads to me like the US will be servicing its subs in ChiCom controlled ports...
You might want to back off on the comments about stupidity on this thread, friend.
We don’t have a MAGA President, now, and far from it. How your little fantasy of “a great thing” would get out of your fevered brain and into reality might be a miracle to behold. Meanwhile, there would be massive collapse, and this illegal FedGov would do all it could to insure it.
“the reason the ships aren’t unloaded is because the containers are empty,”
That would explain the global effort to adjust and falsify their plimsoll line markers so authorities and casual observers would have no idea if they were full or empty - Which is not unheard of, especially shipping going to Africa.
Operators have been known to repaint their depth markers to avoid corrupt charges, taxes, snd other fees in just about every port on that continent.
Call the local Marine Safety Offices and ask...
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