Shipping & Ports the Supply Chain Problems

SpaceNut · 2022-08-31 19:54:05

Try that in Walmart or Target to dicker the price tag on an item...the consumer does not set the purchase price, he just lives with it or goes with less.
We did have the big 3 auto makes bail out for that reason...as they made products that Americans did not want.

kbd512 · 2022-08-31 19:56:28

SpaceNut,

Does someone force you to shop at Walmart or Target?

If nobody buys from Walmart or Target, can you possibly fathom what would happen?

At least we agree that The Big 3 made products that people didn't want. Now... Why did they buy so many of them?

Mars_B4_Moon · 2022-09-07 05:38:09

A US Freight Rail Crisis Threatens More Supply-Chain Chaos

https://www.wired.com/story/a-us-freigh … ain-chaos/

Mars_B4_Moon · 2023-02-14 17:10:33

UK bans Russian ships from ports

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-bans … rom-ports/

8 confirmed dead in ship sinking off Japan and South Korea

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-s … 69560.html

A Chinese official says eight people died in the sinking of a cargo ship in waters between Japan and South Korea

US importers shipping more to America’s east coast ports than west coast amid global supply chain shifts

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article … ain-shifts

NewsNation reporter arrested during Ohio train derailment news event

https://news.yahoo.com/newsnation-repor … ;tsrc=twtr

J.D. Vance demands answers on Ohio train derailment

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl … lment.html

Ohio governor calls it 'absurd' that derailed train with toxic chemicals was not considered hazardous

https://news.yahoo.com/ohio-governor-ca … 20358.html

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Mars_B4_Moon · 2023-04-28 06:20:42

Train Derailment in Wisconsin Sends Railcars Into Mississippi River

https://www.theepochtimes.com/train-der … 27669.html

According to Lena Kent, a spokesperson for the railway, none of the railcars involved in the incident contained hazardous materials. Some of the cars that derailed on shore contained paint and lithium-ion batteries. “The volumes involved don’t pose a risk to the river or the communities,” she said.

Sec. Pete Buttigieg speaks on President Biden's reelection bid, railroad safety, and the air traffic controller shortage
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/sec-pet … 02885.html

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Mars_B4_Moon · 2023-05-18 14:34:19

Truckers are caught on the front lines of California’s EV push | By 2024, trucks bought for use in the state’s ports and rail yards must be zero-emission.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/05/tr … s-ev-push/

kbd512 · 2023-05-19 14:13:21

Mars_B4_Moon,

California will rapidly cease to have functional ports and rail yards if electric trucks are their only option. They cannot supply electricity to the existing homes and electric cars people have already purchased. 33,000 drayage trucks consuming 200kW of electric power each is 6.6GWe. Since they have defined work hours and are constantly moving heavy shipping containers at low speed, implying maximum power and torque to get those loads moving at all, a very substantial portion of the fleet will be running hard at the same time.

A better method would involve conveyor systems that move containers on rollers, because steel-on-steel is 1/9th the friction of rubber on concrete or asphalt. Change the nature of the problem to require far less continuous power output or this nonsense doesn't work. Practical electric transport is cranes, trains, conveyor systems, and lifting robots.

Due to the physics of rubber-on-road, fleets of trucks cumulatively require insane amounts of continuous power when they're all added together. Even if you could do electric trucks, they should be last-mile delivery, as Calliban noted, not pie-in-the-sky "I'm gonna make all semis run on a pile of laptop batteries and NASA-level fuel cells". If this is not obvious, then it's because the people making decisions are clueless about engineering and physics, nevermind resource limitations. They want something they can't have because math and physics forbids it. Making declarations and proclamations does not cause solutions to materialize.

Figure out how to extend the railway to the dockyards, and to load the containers onto rail cars without trucks, or shut down the port. Those are the realistic options available using present technology.

Calliban · 2023-05-19 17:58:09

If the rail network could be extended to allow goods transportation to within a few miles of the end user, there are many different technologies that could power local distribution trucks. The gyrobus is a example of a flywheel powered vehicle. Maybe something similar could power a shortrange truck?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrobus

Flywheels were made of high strength steel in traditional gyrobuses. But composites offer both superior energy density and greater safety. These vehicles with never competewith diesel powered vehicles for long distance transportation. But they can be constructed from abundant materials and do not wear out quickly.

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Mars_B4_Moon · 2023-06-11 02:24:30

"American exports sitting idle at the docks" as union actions shut down Port of Seattle

https://news.yahoo.com/american-exports … 56252.html

Pete Buttigieg says there's 'real concern' about how drivers interact with systems like Tesla's Autopilot

https://www.autoblog.com/2023/05/26/pet … autopilot/

Russia agrees to extend Ukraine grain deal in a boost for global food security

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wi … k-99383740

Ukraine’s fields could become deserts and spark global food crisis in wake of dam destruction, officials warn

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl … 53372.html

‘Like swimming against the current in sulphuric acid’: The battle to supply Ukraine with food

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/ … ket-stock/

Given how Covid lockdown exposed the fragility of modern food supply chains, it would be easy to imagine Ukraine's supermarket shutting altogether.

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Mars_B4_Moon · 2023-06-11 08:53:09

I-95 in Philadelphia shut down after highway collapse

https://www.wnep.com/article/news/natio … 4a61612ff2

Calliban · 2023-06-16 08:02:57

The end of more.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4cEaPxBdp … BvZiBtb3Jl

The old peak oil crowd tended to assume that resource shortages would undermine industrial nations. The reality is that collapsing demographies will undermine productivity in most countries before natural resource shortages rear their ugly head. Regardless of how much oil, or iron, or coal remain in the ground, if there isn't enough skilled labour to dig it out and turn it into refined metal, then we won't have refined steel. The world is running out of economically productive people.

SpaceNut · 2023-06-16 19:18:14

The peak oil is Saudi driven and its all about green not sand as that is what they live in....

Mars_B4_Moon · 2023-08-06 06:39:36

Is globalism ending and friction-less trade routes a thing of the past?

Aviation industry is short 32,000 pilots, mechanics and air traffic controllers - Pete Buttigieg explaining
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl … llers.html

‘Perfect example of incompetence’: Buttigieg probing ‘unrealistic scheduling’ of airlines amid shortage of pilots, staff
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/07/26 … f-1380705/
Buttigieg is vowing to investigate airlines for cancellations and delays

The 'Black Sea' in Romanian Marea Neagra, most call it the Black Sea in their language Bulgarian, Ukraine, Russia and other minority like Abkhaz-Turkic or Georgian Kartvelian language but it is also known as "Hospitable Sea" to Greeks lots of supply problems and part of a horrible Grain and Oil Price War with death across Ukraine.

Russia is trying to strangle Ukraine’s grain industry. American shoppers could feel the pain.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/2 … e-00107864

Moment ‘Ukraine kamikaze drone takes out Russian tanker’ in Black Sea
https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/05/moment-u … -19283450/

of course the USA with such amazing allies who get 28 pages censored

and they help bad guys get into the USA so they can crash planes into buildings

Saudi extends 1m bpd oil output cut: energy ministry
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/2 … y-ministry

and in the future? Michael Suffredini and Kam Ghaffarian from Axiom will be busy giving these kind of jihadi islamic mohammedan guys a foothold in outer space

Mars_B4_Moon · 2023-09-05 08:11:27

Pete Buttigieg visits Indy to tout street-conversions grant
https://www.ibj.com/articles/pete-butti … ions-grant

Today global supply chain crisis, economic slow down in a political Trump vs Biden election and Joe Biden winning, a consequence of Corona virus the COVID-19 pandemic, many nations slow outputs with strict lockdown procedure, Port on the West Coast blocked, and, later, a Gas Pipeline to Germany hit, 2021–2023 global energy crisis 2021 Suez Canal obstruction, the ongoing 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, global supply chains and shipments slowed again.

Erdogan says renewed Ukraine-Russia grain deal is 'possible'
https://www.dw.com/en/erdogan-says-rene … a-66711128

Russia upends global grain trade as world’s top exporter
https://www.manilastandard.net/business … orter.html

The Suez Canal

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/a … Canal.html

When the Suez Canal first opened in 1869, providing a navigable passage from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, it was hailed as a milestone in the development of international trade.
But while the potential for profit was huge, there was also a terrible human price to pay with more than 20,000 Egyptian workers losing their lives during its construction.
This huge project embodied the very spirit of the Industrial Revolution - both as a grand technological triumph and a huge exploitation of a Third World nation by wealthy financiers.

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Mars_B4_Moon · 2023-11-02 18:14:55

Suez Operation - Getting on and off a ship in the Suez canal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqLq9ofkxKI

Thailand is considering building a 102 kilometer long canal
https://www.tiktok.com/@futurology.shor … 8536574250

Comments say Thais have been talking about this project for 60 years or even forever. Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha declared that the canal was not a government priority.

In January 2020, the Thai House of Representatives agreed to set up a committee within 120 days to study the Thai Canal project.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opi … al-project

Thailand however also has problems with muslims blowing innocent people up, these islamist jihadi of Thailand are linked to drug cartels,oil smuggling networks,and sometimes pirate raids, there is an islamist religious separatist insurgency in the historical regions made up of the three southernmost provinces of Thailand which might be why the Thai government never went ahead with the project.

A Thai Emergency Decree was extended for the 68th time in 2022, since its first issue in July 2005
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge … n-in-south
The islamic attack and Sharia Law Insurgency Jihadi war has claimed 6,543 lives in the past 12 years in Thailand
https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/2017 … ars/815372

Buttigieg Promotes Grants to Boost Miami Port’s Supply Chain
https://www.ttnews.com/articles/buttigi … miami-port

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SpaceNut · 2023-12-20 11:25:31

We have had strike 1 with a super ship becoming stuck 2021 when the Suez Canal was blocked for several days and now it seems strike 2 is happening.
That’s Two for Two: The World’s Other Big Canal Is in Trouble

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Taking the short cut is worth it...

Jefferies estimates container fleet utilization could surge from 77% to 88% and oil product tanker capacity could become entirely booked up—it is already high at a 95% utilization rate. A containership traveling from the Far East to Europe takes 21 days via the Suez Canal but 42 days if going around Africa, according to the bank. A tanker from the Middle East takes 17 days to get to Europe using the Suez Canal but 41 days if going around Africa.

Mars_B4_Moon · 2023-12-23 10:01:44

Drone Strike Hits 'Israel-Linked' Trade Vessel in Indian Ocean; Maritime Agencies Issue Alert for Ships

https://www.news18.com/world/drone-stri … 15226.html

Mars_B4_Moon · 2023-12-24 11:06:57

Middle East shipping starts to collapse?

https://twitter.com/MarineTraffic/statu … 5437219857
'At least six vessels have been attacked this week in the Bab el Mandeb strait, the narrow passage at the entrance to the Red Sea, including Maersk and Hapag Lloyd vessels'

more Fears for global shipping

Japan-owned tanker attacked by drone fired from Iran in Indian Ocean

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2023 … ocean.html

Mars_B4_Moon · 2023-12-27 11:03:09

Why Australia Isn’t Sending a Ship to the Red Sea
https://thediplomat.com/2023/12/why-aus … e-red-sea/
'rejecting a request to send a vessel to join Operation Prosperity Guardian, a U.S.-led military operation'

Davos 2024: Rebuilding trust
https://www.bbva.com/en/whats-happening-davos-forum/
Davos will be held in Switzerland from January 15th - 19th with the theme ‘Rebuilding trust’

'IT Army stops operation of one of Russia's largest ERP systems'
https://news.yahoo.com/army-stops-opera … 06715.html

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg 1-on-1, discussing future of EVs
https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/pete-b … rum-at-msu

Pentagon says Iranian drone 'attack' hit chemical tanker near India
https://www.thehindu.com/news/internati … 671158.ece

Israel extends ground offensives to central Gaza
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20231227_22/

'Yemen rebels claim Red Sea ship strike, drone attack towards Israel'
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/y … el-4011866

Shippers know the Suez is always a crisis waiting to happen
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/sm … 170787.cms

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Mars_B4_Moon · 2023-12-29 19:42:15

Maritime transport: Whitmer, Buttigieg visit Port of Monroe
https://news.yahoo.com/maritime-transpo … 48887.html
The Port of Monroe welcomed visits from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg this year.

Mars_B4_Moon · 2024-01-04 12:49:04

Germany weighs role in Red Sea naval protection force

https://news.yahoo.com/germany-weighs-r … 23276.html

British deliveries to be delayed?

https://www.itv.com/news/2024-01-04/red … be-delayed

One of the busiest shipping lanes in the world has been targeted

SpaceNut · 2024-01-04 16:27:26

Every now and then I do see items of particular brands in the stores that are out. This will of course mean that its hung in a waiting game at some place in the worlds waterways.

SpaceNut · 2024-01-15 18:16:27

The Businesses That Rescued America From Inflation, Recession, Lost Jobs
All at a time when manpower was being required at the greatest level.

SpaceNut · 2024-01-20 08:38:42

‘Greedflation’ caused more than half of last year’s inflation surge, study finds, as corporate profits remain at all-time highs

Corporate profits drove 53% of inflation during the second and third quarters of 2023 and more than one-third since the start of the pandemic, the report found, analyzing Commerce Department data. That’s a massive jump from the four decades prior to the pandemic, when profits drove just 11% of price growth.

the usual passing the buck onto the cosumer.

Mars_B4_Moon · 2024-02-19 04:33:45

Biden, Jordan’s king confer on Gaza war
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/202 … -gaza-war/

Crew abandon ship in most damaging strike yet by Yemen’s Houthis
https://www.ft.com/content/f256cc11-b61 … 9c30651390
The attack on the Rubymar, which was carrying cargo from the United Arab Emirates to Bulgaria

UK-registered cargo ship is at risk of sinking in the Red Sea after being struck by Houthi missiles
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl … essel.html

Penny Wong warns against ‘miscalculation and accident’ in Indian Ocean after Red Sea shipping disruptions
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n … isruptions
Australian foreign minister says diplomacy alone will not prevent potential future conflicts

Buttigieg promises IBR ‘is going to happen,’ but will it?
https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/news/b … t-will-it/

Is Pete Buttigieg Finished?
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/polit … hed-209229

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