Offshore Container Ship Logjam

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I hear there's a severe shortage of truck drivers causing this. Can't they move the goods by rail ?  Y'all got train tracks out there or what ? KC Jones can get er done.

send them an email.

i'm sure they'll get right on it.

Surplus of train engineers. 

even if they return to 24/7...the shipping warehouses and the whole chain needs to as well. 

if they pickup a container at 3 am, where do they take it?

pretty crazy.

i see ships backed all the way toward my area and i'm 40+ miles south...

 

Robot trucks need robot boats.

Where's Henry when you need him? Acapulco getting stoned?

Maybe stop testing truck drivers for weed residuals in their piss from the joint they smoked on their time off and you might get a shit ton of new applicants....

legalize human behavior 

^That seems to align with Amazon's push for nationalized legal weed too, presumably so they can more easily hire for drivers and other "safety sensitive" positions.

#ThanksObama

Its Insanity all those Cargo ships out there DRIVING PRICES TO INSANITY On EVERYTHING And WILL Continue WELL Into 2022  !! GREED KILLS

i see ships backed all the way toward my area and i'm 40+ miles south... <<< 

Turtle They are Almost Up to Point Dume ! This is So Wrong

Buy American!  

(um, does that include south or central America?)

Well we could make things in USA again....

Or stop passing bull shit laws like AB5 that ran all the truckers out of state.

But it's ok, papa Joe says we open 24 hours now!  Lol.  The port only closed from 3a-7a weekdays before, much for reasons Turtle brought up.

Foreign companies own these docks.  They don't give af.

Check it out on marinetraffic.com

so many ships they even dragging pipelines and causing oil spills

its been backed up for about 10 months.  Papa Joe just noticed.

What an incredibly fragile system we rely on.

The black market gets hit too. How many kilos / precursors are just sitting there waiting for distribution? 

Pretty sure weed testing is not the root of this problem. It will be a long time before insurance companies will look the other way regarding weed usage and vehicle/machine operators.

A global pandemic and economic shutdown has consequences. The best solution to the problem is to get people vaccinated and quash the virus and get spending habits back to normal. 

I am not an economist or a doctor and don't play either on tv. 

 

current lead times for steel in my work have jumped from 6 weeks to 6 months and longer every day.

if China produces the steel, owns the ports, what happens during wartime?

hard to build them tanks with no steel.

Thank jah utopia is right around the corner and this will never happen

Wartime. Lol

Tanks? Tanks are so WWII. We got drones and smart bombs and shit. Gary, Indiana will produce all the steel we need.

slack knows of this utopia.

Egg wars are coming.

Egg roll wars.

haha Take warning

Where's mayor Pete isn't he in charge of this?

#bareshelvesbiden

Teach us about tank warfare.

<<Where's mayor Pete isn't he in charge of this?

Pete and Chastin are busy on Maternity leave together. 

Steel from China is no good.
We should be making this stuff here in the US.

We can't make things here because the robber barons would have to pay more in labor and the shareholders and wall st. Would make less, and we can't have that now can we?

This is why we can't have nice things. 

<< Teach us about tank warfare 

The Battle of Kursk was the largest tank battle in history, involving some 6,000 tanks -  2,000,000 troops, and 4,000 aircraft. It marked the decisive end of the German offensive capability on the Eastern Front and cleared the way for the great Soviet offensives of 1944–45 and their takeover of Eastern Europe

"Market Adjustment"*

Buying a new vehicle?  Get familiar with the phrase.

 

 

 

*Translated into Jerseyese:  "Dis chip thing."

my friend became a trucker in the last 5 years...

i could have gone that route as my family used to own a trucking company.

 

Events like this will only speed up research and investments into AI. Machines aren't programmed to talk back, fight back, call off, change careers or stick it to the man with a strike.  If it can be loaded / unloaded to or from anything,,  AI will be doing it sooner than later. Big money wants what big money wants.

Man needs a maid.

Rich man needs a maid.  The rest of us were taught to clean up after ourselves.

Three terminals with a 4th on the way are already automated at the LB LA port complex.

One of their biggest "selling" points is automation is better for the environment.  Green new what?  Sucka.

Nobody cleans up after themselves. We have affordable servants for everyone.