Posted on 12/13/2021 8:36:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The supply chain problem is solved. How? Because the problem is not getting worse. Theoretically, that's a good thing. However, the absence of goods and the overwhelming presence of government-printed money means that the American economy is in for a world of hurt.
Fewer ships are parked and waiting off the California coast than two months ago, and about the same number of ships are daily waiting during the last two weeks. In other words, the system has achieved stability because things are either getting better or are not getting worse depending upon the time frame observed.
Of course, a transportation system that cannot further reduce the number of waiting ships causes higher prices because of the additional cost to shippers. For now, though, prices of goods will stop rising because the wait times are stable. Better solutions to the supply chain problem will have to await a new administration that wants to address the cost of goods to the American people.
Meanwhile, Mr. Biden and company have gotten precisely what they want: they drained wealth from the American citizenry. Each policy Mr. Biden's socialist regime implemented has cost individual consumers more, whether it is the price of housing, food, or transportation. And the Biden administration has instituted or supported the great equalizer, inflation, which makes everyone poorer, even the rich. The rich just feel it less!
The only process that has saved the country from acute disaster is the government's printing our fiat currency. The consequences of having printed too much money will become evident only in a future rapid reduction of consumption. At that point, if the cost of money rises, even marginally, it will be beyond our ability to service an ever-increasing debt.
Only now, when borrowing has essentially no cost, can our system maintain any stability.
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Is that because there is an equilibrium between another ship arriving, while another is unloaded and leaving?
Could just as well be that the clogging of ships has resulted in many returning to their original port, or going elsewhere. The remaining ships have nowhere else to go, while nothing is being unloaded.
They began queuing them up further off shore. The ship counts are still there, just not considered waiting in port.
Because they push the holding areas beyond the line of sight from the California coast doesn’t mean they are gone and the overload of containers at LA ports waiting to be taken away by truckers upon whom the feds and CA have placed punitive measure upon any less. Throughput and delivery to factories and customers are the key indicator.
Or just they'll quit making the journey altogether knowing they'll be stranded once they get here.
I'm guessing it would cost a fortune to pay crews/contractors for getting stranded at US ports.
That’s my assumption. Why make the journey to rust for months until unloaded?
Never was.
DEFLECTION from Inventory Control in Deflation.
Where there is D-Employment. I.e. Employment that is unable to compensate for the suffocating slave costs of living.
The number #1 industry in History was and is slavery.
Wake up folks to the masquerade.
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Propaganda BS or someone functionally illiterate with supply chain issues. China factories and warehouses are in chaos. Still a container and transporter shortage...ships are moored further out to sea.
Did any on them take the canal to the gulf and east coast harbors?
That’s my assumption. Why make the journey to rust for months until unloaded?
This article is either very poorly written or very poorly edited. It is painful to read and doesn't make a clear point.
Because that's how they get paid.
It's not over. China reportedly instituted a new policy - returning ship crews have to quarantine for 7 weeks, and the ship owners can't even hire new crews for 2 weeks. The ships themselves are put in quarantine. They call this part of their "zero covid" policy.
Next up, in about 6 weeks China goes into its lunar New Year holiday where nearly all the factories close for a couple weeks. They do this every year but this year it will only put more crunch on supplies.
They rerouted to Florida.
This is flat out bulls**t. 100 or more ships were moved to ~~150 miles offshore so they don’t appear as such a cluster around the port.
Ships are staging off shore, out of the port zone. This morning I read there were 25 ships in LA, but 92 waiting 40 miles out to see.
This was on FBN.
A lot of them cannot get through the canal, and they would not have cargo for the return trip. I imagine “dead heading” in a cargo ship is an expensive proposition.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-117.9/centery:33.6/zoom:10
Sh*t's easy enough to check. I'm a little disappointed in "American Thinker".
As reported in the WSJ by Paul Berger (10 Dec 21):
The backup of container ships waiting to enter the nation’s busiest port complex isn’t letting up. But it has moved farther from shore.
Only about 30 vessels sat within sight of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach this week, waiting for berths at a gateway that has come to symbolize U.S. supply-chain bottlenecks. More than 60 others destined for the port complex remained in waters farther out to sea, some hundreds or even thousands of miles away, including ships that reduced speed during their voyage from Asia to delay their arrival.
The ships are complying with a voluntary system set up last month by maritime officials because of fears the ports can’t safely accommodate the crush of waiting vessels as winter weather sweeps in with strong winds and rough seas.
Even if they can get to another port, they may not have a marshaling facility available there to take, store, or distribute the cargo. And some (many?) of these containers are not legal for long-distance transport, they’re only supposed to travel a short distance to that distribution center.
Fewer ships are waiting off the California coast than two months ago because China has locked them down in Chinese ports due to covid.
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