[Alberta's Child]

Shippers desperate to cover at least some of their costs have slashed prices — the cost of chartering a container vessel has plunged from 2008 highs of $200,000 a day to just under $5,000 a day, according to a July report by brokers JLT Speciality.

Let's anchor them offshore and convert them into prisons.

[tiki]

This is scary because we have sent so much of our manufacturing overseas. No one carries an inventory anymore and rely on on-time deliveries.

[zeestephen]

$5,000 a day?

Is that even enough to pay for their fuel?