China just shut down cities with 51 million people.
Don’t worry....the crisis will be back with a vengeance soon. This will be on top of the energy crisis and the coming food crisis.
The news stations are going to need good editors to keep these things prioritized.
The media ignores it. but talk with anyone who works in any sort of industry and you’ll find out more than you want to know.
It’s destroying the American economy.
Just a thought, perhaps we should attempt to rely less on Chinese manufacturing.
In the seventies this same method was utilized to raise price creating inflation. Same trick different year. As soon as price is raised SHAZAM. Abundances return. So the People get fooled again
It was basically solved in a very boring manner. The California ports adopted a new system where ships had to book their arrivals in advance.
Now a ship doesn’t leave Asia until it has a berth confirmed. What that has meant in practice is that if a ship finds a long wait for an opening on the west coast they are going through the canal to the East coast ports with spare capacity.
I know I am still waiting for a warranty part for my high-dollar Jenn-Air double oven. Since late January. Tired of this big toaster oven.
I heard a few days ago the backups at ports are as bad as ever.
I think this supply chain crisis is conditioning for a future of shortages and rationing, just like the old Soviet Union. You will take a shopping bag along with you where ever you. If you stumble on a store selling something, you have to get it right then and there before it is gone, so you need a way to carry it home. They called it their “just in case” bag. People will hang around grocery stores and watch for trucks to show up so they can be first in line. If you do find something, you stand in line to order it, take a slip to another line and pay for it, then take the receipt to another line to pick it up. All for equity and global warming.
Ukraine! Ukraine! Ukraine!
See how easy it is to solve the supply-chain crisis?
You know what they want you to know, nothing more. Manipulation of the masses is the sole purpose of the media, corporate and government cabal.
The supply chain has many links. The ship congestion at Long Beach was a temporary thing as it is easy to reroute ships and use trucks instead. I see a lot of the supply problems arising in the scarcity of raw materials now, preventing the manufacturing of products.
The backlog of ships waiting to unload at the ports in long Beach and Los Angeles is still there, they just moved most of them to South Orange County and further out to sea so the people couldn’t see them all stacked up like sardines.
It is still a mess. I went to a Meijer this week and bare shelves and freezer cases with “sorry but yada yada” signs on them.
It is still a mess but things are happening so fast that we can’t see what happened right before the next thing. THIS IS ON PURPOSE.
It is hard to believe after what we now know about the clotshots, that they want to force another one. THEY COUNT ON IGNORANCE.
The focus now is on Ukraine and a new DHS announcement has been made as an edict to criminalize free speech regarding the 2020 election, coronavirus and vaxes.
Each day it all worsens
This guy, Sal Mercagliano, is an expert in Maritime law and has been in the industry forever. He usually has some salient things to report vis a vis the shipping picture and has his eyes on a lot of stuff. No of ships offshore; port container statistics, etc etc. He’s pretty interesting and easy to digest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuwnohDU4cQ
Where we are in this saga is quite amorphous right now; most of the meaty developments occurred last year or even the year before and some of his older videos provide some good insight in a background sort of way. What I’m trying to say is that the news flow in so garbled up right now that a snapshot of “right now” is likely to present a very skewed distorted picture of the overall situation.
The MSM can only deal with 2 or 3 shiny objects at a time, despite broadcasting all day.
Worker shortages still exist. They got paid to sit at home for so long that few now want to work or know what work is.
Because now everything is Putin’s fault. The Putin price hike. The Putin supply chain. The Putin climate change. The Putin covid19 pandemic. Putin Putin Putin
Here’s an interesting web site https://shiptracker.live/ at the site click the start button then zoom in on the west coast. It appears that a lot of ship traffic is being routed through the Panama Canal to gulf coast ports.