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2021-10-01 Economy

International shipping workers warn of 'global transport systems collapse'

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-01 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Workers ask for sane protocols and easier access to vaccinations

The poorer a country, the saner its people?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-10-01 01:49|| 2021-10-01 01:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Verge of collapse!, it has already happened. Ships anchored for so long have or are having shortages of food and water. Truckers will not comply with apocalypse administrators. Protocols HA, dictates by college pukes they are called by workers.

Posted by Dale 2021-10-01 09:33|| 2021-10-01 09:33|| Front Page Top

#3 This is what happens when you 'eliminate redundancy'. You don't have redundancy anymore. As in, no backup system.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-10-01 10:13|| 2021-10-01 10:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Why do San Diego and L.A. all of a sudden have port problems. I've seen blame put on anything from lack of truckers, to dock workers, shipping containers and port infra-structure problems.

What's the truth.

Posted by JohnQC 2021-10-01 10:32|| 2021-10-01 10:32|| Front Page Top

#5 I'd guess this is the flip side of our just-in-time inventory management and outsourced (to China) supply chains. It works beautifully IF, and only if, all parts of the chain -- demand chain and supply chain both -- are stable and predictable.

But when even one element goes awry, the effect is the same as the effect on traffic when you have a big rig wreck blocking three lanes.

And right now we're seeing a huge disruption to the stability & predictability of the demand chain -- because consumers are alternately bingeing and then being thrown into lockdown -- as well as the supply chain due to western MNCs shifting their production base out of China.

So the exact same system that previously gave the global economy unheard-of efficiency and low prices is now causing massive inefficiency and spiraling inflation.

Posted by Burn Loot Murder 2021-10-01 11:38|| 2021-10-01 11:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Just received my Tactacam Cellular Trail Camera after waiting more than 12 months. Company flew shipment over after being unable to lease a cargo container.

Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2021-10-01 11:43|| 2021-10-01 11:43|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 above is spot on. Just in time logistics requires source to sale transportation rapidity and confidence. IN a vast commercial ecosystem like the US, massive decoupling of interlinked components, devastating declines in labor and buyer access, and overall loss of capital investment maintenance and improvements have left a battlefield-like landscape for business. And now, into this comes a collection of Command Economy geniuses who have no idea of how a demand economy actually works, and will react to massive inflationary spirals with price controls not interest rate braking. The entire federal budget would be required to be spent on debt service alone if actual interest rate hikes and liquidity curbs were enacted to stop the destructive levels of inflation. Remember WIN (Whip Inflation Now) under Ford with 18% interest rates? The Republic will not survive these craven morons.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-10-01 12:38|| 2021-10-01 12:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Read somewhere that Costco brought in their own containers or leased them and picked up their stuff.

I wondered if California spent previous infrastructure money or ignored infrastructure in their ports causing a lot of the existing trouble? I dunno. Reading the above, it reads like there a lot of dislocations in the demand/supply chains all along the chains.

Posted by JohnQC 2021-10-01 12:46|| 2021-10-01 12:46|| Front Page Top

#9 I read, about a month ago, that Home Depot had taken a two year lease on a small container ship, and enough empties to fill it.
They want their stuff for Xmas.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-10-01 16:38|| 2021-10-01 16:38|| Front Page Top

#10 I was surprised last week when I visited a nearby grocery store. It is part of a local chain of about 20 stores. Their bakeries used to sell doughnuts made in the stores. The doughnut displays were empty. A sign posted on them said the local doughnut flour supplier had gone out of business & so they couldn't make doughnuts.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-10-01 19:50|| 2021-10-01 19:50|| Front Page Top

#11 Costco may have its own shipping containers but it doesn't have its own port.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-10-01 19:52|| 2021-10-01 19:52|| Front Page Top

#12 And now, into this comes a collection of Command Economy geniuses who have no idea of how a demand economy actually works, and will react to massive inflationary spirals with price controls not interest rate braking

Exactly. These jokers are making a minor disruption into a massive economic dislocation that could destroy economic growth for years.

The integrated demand/supply chain logistics system that has been carefully created, over decades, by expert management at hundreds of multinationals from Japan to Germany to the US and then spread across the world, is as finely calibrated as a Swiss watch.

Pres. Magoo's crew of lefty morons knows as much about the operations of such an intricate, complex system as Hunter Biden knows about chivalry.

They are destroying overtook what Deming and other brilliant supply chain experts designed and built over half a century. Savages.

Posted by Burn Loot Murder 2021-10-01 21:36|| 2021-10-01 21:36|| Front Page Top

#13 Good,
outsource everything
Clintons!

Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-01 21:56|| 2021-10-01 21:56|| Front Page Top

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