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Record container ship traffic jam as backlog continues to build
Freight Waves and American Shipper ^ | July 28, 2022 | Greg Miller

Posted on 07/29/2022 5:28:03 AM PDT by george76

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1 posted on 07/29/2022 5:28:03 AM PDT by george76
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Well, there’s NO other explanation! This is CLEARLY Trump’s fault! *SMIRK*

Let’s Go, Brandon!

We’re so screwed.


2 posted on 07/29/2022 5:30:50 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: george76

I couldn’t get through the article. Isn’t the backup because a trucker strike protesting the California law requiring new truckers to pick up freight?


3 posted on 07/29/2022 5:31:52 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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“I couldn’t get through the article. Isn’t the backup because a trucker strike protesting the California law requiring new truckers to pick up freight?”

Yes.


4 posted on 07/29/2022 5:34:21 AM PDT by savedbygrace (But God)
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To: mountainlion

I just assumed that when I saw the title. Oddly, it’s not even brought up in the article. At least not in the extract shown here.


5 posted on 07/29/2022 5:41:06 AM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: mountainlion

As always, there is a GOVERNMENT screwup somewhere as the cause of this...


6 posted on 07/29/2022 5:43:58 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: george76

It is not straightforward to quantify port queues, and thus conducive to manipulation.

Want a smaller queue? Just lower the number of ships allowed within the distance that qualifies as a queue - some ships will have to anchor further away.

Same number of ships waiting to unload, only more or less dispersed.


7 posted on 07/29/2022 5:44:05 AM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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Container shipping from Europe to our East coast has remained fairly favorable throughout the entire pandemic. The trains for moving containers across the country have been a nightmare though.


8 posted on 07/29/2022 5:49:54 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: savedbygrace

I wonder what would happen if we actually made things in THIS country?

Maybe we wouldn’t have all those ships off shore.


9 posted on 07/29/2022 5:56:28 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spiritI)
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26 off Los Angeles/Long Beach

Most of it Chicom crap.

10 posted on 07/29/2022 5:56:32 AM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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It’s all so Atlas Shrugged.


11 posted on 07/29/2022 5:57:23 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. It's "whatever".)
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Where the hell is FudgeButt?

Isn’t it his job to correct problems like this?


12 posted on 07/29/2022 5:58:42 AM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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Big Labor is showing off so their power will be felt and respected.

Pete, the queer, is trumped by Labor


13 posted on 07/29/2022 6:01:55 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: george76

Buttplugger is doing such a great job as Secretary of Transportation I can see why he thinks he should be President.


14 posted on 07/29/2022 6:03:29 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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——requiring new truckers to pick up freight?-——

A little help please. What does that mean? what is a new trucker?


15 posted on 07/29/2022 6:03:31 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: george76; Red Badger; BenLurkin; Kaslin; Lazamataz; MHGinTN; SJackson; SunkenCiv; Liz; LS; ...

We are now beginning the hurricane season - lasting in the real world from August through October, and ranging across the entire Gulf Coast and Southern East Coast.

Now, forecast what will happen to these record backups nationally when each of the Houston and Texas section, the New Orleans to Mobile AL section, Pensacola to Miami and then Miami to Savanah sections are each closed for one week before a hurricane, and two weeks after each hurricane.

Long Beach, Portland and San Diego at least face no Pacific hurricanes. Seems like Ole Pete Transportation Department Buttigeg hasn’t planned for their affects on the south and east coasts. The good news is that there is near zero chance every port will be significantly damaged at the same time. But some damage is near certain someplace. Delays and losses certain.

At sea, the long slow transition of ships from China’s Panama Canal to these ports will be slowed as well as those in transit slow and avoid storm surge and winds.


16 posted on 07/29/2022 6:04:56 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: george76

Buttplug is way to busy selling EVs to worry about things like this


17 posted on 07/29/2022 6:06:03 AM PDT by butlerweave
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I keep looking for some of those teams of Rambo type warriors to come in and straighten this out and remove the bad guys causing this misery to humanity. Instead the only fight we have is rigged elections and wimp corrupt leaders.

Sometimes we need something to happen just like in the movies.


18 posted on 07/29/2022 6:11:24 AM PDT by dforest
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>> ..Want a smaller queue? Just lower the number of ships allowed within the distance that qualifies as a queue - some ships will have to anchor further away.

That's become the norm.
the CDC changed the definition of a vaccine
now we are changing the definition of a recession
port problem? Just change the definition.
all good!

19 posted on 07/29/2022 6:13:13 AM PDT by SGCOS (not vaccinated for covid and never will be)
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That would be cool. Who would staff those factories?


20 posted on 07/29/2022 6:15:29 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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