What is causing the supply chain shocks? People have said that its manpower shortages and vax mandates, but aren't most ports in the US union? And aren't they relatively high skilled and high-paying jobs? From what I know about unions, also, the benches are deep enough with newbies that they can keep things staffed. Also, most places vax mandates aren't effective yet or only just becoming effective?
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So why would all these ships be sitting off the shore? You can see them on tracking maps, but can someone confirm that the number of ships is abnormally high? Or is that just some of GAW confirmation bias? Also, under what flag are the majority of these ships domiciled? It looks like some of the tracking sites let you filter by ship's flag, but the ones I looked at required paid subscriptions. So open question for shipfags - whose ships are sitting offshore?
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Further questions. Lets just say you're China, and you want to invade. Of course using merchant ships is an interesting way of moving troops and weapons. Almost like the offshoring movement was 100% to plan for an invasion. Would you be able to use other country's ships as well? Who are proxy nations? Singapore? Iran? Can you use tankers as well? or Just bulk carriers? How would you unload? Would it need to be advance teams at ports? Possible to have helicopters onboard? Finally, lets just say you were going to spring the trap. How would you keep from tipping your hand? Would positioning your ships abnormally give them away? Would you be able to turn off your ship's location? Would that be a giveaway? Or do ship position updates not happen frequently (I saw many on the ship trackers that were 3-4 days old for ships that were clearly still underway)? Once again, shipfags, is this common?
Got to thinking about Chinese cargo ships
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Interesting. What's his take - white hats on the lookout for something? Black hats trying to purposely snarl the supply chain? or black hats providing cover for amassing troops?
Perhaps the problem is with the truck drivers and them quitting over cross-state vaccine mandates, making the cargo slow to be collected and removed from seaports?
Shipping cargo containers that are really missile launching systems.
thats the russian ones, the chinese have them too - https://missilethreat.csis.org/missile/yj-18/ yj-18c
https://missilethreat.csis.org/missile/yj-18/
YJ-18C A March 2019 report said that China was developing the YJ-18C, a land-attack variant designed to deploy in commercial shipping containers.14 Russia has developed a similar containerized launch system for its 3M-54 Klub-K missile, which fits four missiles into a single container.15
I have stated this several times now. Looks to me every US city within 200 miles of the coast line is in the sights. This is war and it is exactly the scenario the containerized weapons were designed for. China has us surrounded.
dont be silly thinking theyre just off the coast, id bet they got em in walmart parking lots and shit, canadian border...
chinese state propaganda shows them raising their flag on our soil.
The plan is for Americans to see the World burning all around them. As well as being denied the easy life they have had. This includes all the bells and whistles. Otherwise they would not care if the World was burning.
That's the truth right there. We have become a narcissistic nation. Especially those under 30. So long as they can watch the video of the volcano and the rest of the world burning while eating junk food and playing with their toys, it never gets real for them.
I work for the largest ship supply company in the world and what people are talking about is 100% normal. You can easily go to any of the numerous AIS vessel teackers, ie vesselfinder, marine traffic etc and see that this is nothing out of the ordinary. Vessels stay offshore sometimes for weeks in what they call "lightering areas" either waiting for terminals to become available or waiting for next destination or "orders" as we call it in the Maritime industry....
Nothing out of the ordinary
thanks - this is the type of response I was hoping for. Please tell me, what do you think the most likely abnormal things WOULD be, so that we can look out for them. Assuming China would take actions to not have this noticable on AIS, let alone whatever radar and satellites we have following the ships.
As someone commented earlier I'm not saying there's no shortages just that it's not the ships waiting outside. I think the cause of the issues are with truck drivers, railroads, etc. And the effects are what we are seeing offshore.
I cannot testify as to what's going on west coast but those are the largest container ports which would explain the shortages in stores for common goods in stores.
Down in the US Gulf we deal with mainly oil tankers, LNG, and Mississippi River is mostly grain terminals. Things are busier than ever before and even after hurricanes Ida and Nicholas we had the highest monthly sales volume in September in company history.
The container missle issue is VERY REAL and I would imagine space force, DHS may be monitoring each of those container vessels a lot more closely than in the past which could also explain the backlog on west coast
People have said on here (no clue if true or not) that west coast were the ones with more cargo ship issues. This kind of makes sense if you know which crime families run those ports compared to us on the gulf coast. My trucker friend confirmed most of what you said last time this came up around here. He's been trying to get me to step up and get a big boy job either at the port or trucking lol.
I certainly cannot vouch for the authenticity of this clip but it came out a few days ago. If this is normal than the shipping business should re-think their logistics, No?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/H5ygAkCfNRbd/
go to https://www.vesselfinder.com/
change your settings to show only cargo vessels and tankers. This will drastically change your map as it takes out cruise ships, yachts, fishing vessels, etc....
refresh your map to show just around USA and you can toggle past dates and compare for yourself.
Like i said i cannot attest for what's happening on the west coast as we all know kommiefornia is their own animal.
there are a million different reasons ships can be delayed. Terminal availabilities, failed coast guard exams for the smallest of safety reasons, ie. expired hand flairs...
they can be denied entry due to expired dates or no dates on provisions depending on what country they are coming from
for example we had a terminal down here in Houston and bc they lost power for over 24 hrs they have to get all of their safety protocols re-examined....this delayed vessels to this particular terminal for almost 2 weeks!!!
I am just not understanding the theory here? It is almost impossible to pinpoint any exact reason for backlogs or delays because there are too many reasons and most are case by case issues.
Even if it is nefarious they would simply lie and tell us something different as they always do
Explain why the mail is shut down to 21 counties. As I see it your a govt agent spewing misinformation. Cause we are in the hunt for red October. Ie China flew b3 rocket over Sydney. And 4 carrier groups in indo China seas. We all know so fuck off.
I don't need to explain anything to you handshake even if I could understand your ignorant comment
Lol! My BF works in the oil and gas industry. Nice name! We were just talking about the reports of fuel shortages and there’s definitely not one. Something is going on with the supply chain but it’s definitely not the boats or the fuel.
Yea like I said the gulf is booming but can't attest to what's going on in kommiefornia
What part of NOLA are you from? Grew up uptown st Charles and Nashville but I'm in Houston now
Went to school on St Charles myself! I’m sure we know each other! 😏
Look at the other related things that were caused by direct government intervention
paying farmers to not grow food anymore, threatening them with fines if they do. Then getting to use food shortages as an excuse to seize power for the supposed societal net benefit, while doing harm to the nation.
shutting down pipelines to have no gas at the pump.. and then using that as an excuse.. in the same way.
wouldn't they fuck with ports, dockyards, the transport and haulage piece also, for the same reason as the other things? Of course.
Make crisis profitable and you create a massive incentive to keep on conjuring new disasters.
There were a couple posts on this and even a news - search for it, I am sure people dug up more info
Can confirm abnormal ship numbers. I see 'em lined up off the coast in L.A., and it's pretty much the only time this has happened in over 30 years. Also know some folks who do imports, who can't get their goods... months of delays, and dates aren't reliable.
Keep in mind that this situation creates a massive hit to China's cash flow. Their economy is based on exports, and if nobody receives their goods, China is not getting paid. It starts with the manufacturers, but if they work on credit lines, that goes straight to the bankers, who then can't lend to anyone else ... I wouldn't be surprised if this was instrumental to crash Evergrande, and more.
This seems like a Trump-style move, just like he did in his bankruptcies in the 80s and 90s. "If you owe the bank $100, the bank controls you; but if you owe the bank $10 billion that means you control the bank." If push comes to shove, China's interrupted food imports (can't buy; no cash) will hurt them more than the interruption to our stream of imports hurts us.
And this is happening independently of whatever troops or missiles or human slaves might be hidden in their containers.
What he’s missing is China does import a lot of food if they can’t get the worlds food they starve into submission. Pays to be able to feed your own population. This isn’t a game. This is how things are done.
I've been thinking about this lately too. What if the container ships are full of troops, equipment and are club-k containers?
Then it'd be awfully funny if they were all stuck in containers for weeks, wouldn't it? Almost as if someone saw it coming and left them to suffer, being tossed and turned through hurricane season.
That or we're just seeing them stack up until they have enough stuff there to make their move
Time to stock up on toilet paper!
All wars start with an EMBARGO, weather perceived or not. What your missing is that China will soon be decimated financially with a currency attack. How did the Russian wall come down? Next phase China lashes out. NCSWIC. NCSVVIC = VV= V for Vendetta! Enjoy the show.
Those ships have been piling up since before China stole our presidency. Hundreds of shipping containers loaded with missiles seems like a good deterrent to stop our military from acting on the evidence they captured on election night.
Those ships are all scanned by satellite 1/4 the way across good luck but your idea is severely flawed.
What magic technology are you talking about. We cant even see through a person's tee shirt without blasting them with radiation in those little airport cancer machines.
Even if the tech did exist to see through cargo containers FROM SPACE, how many layers can it scan, those fuckers are stacked deep, AND we simply dont have enough eyes or time to scan every ship. Unless it's some AI based system.
It’s majic yes your absolutely correct. It’s advanced further with your lack of understanding. Good day it would only fall on deaf ears.
Ok, keep being a vague little punk. You have made assertions and presented nothing to back them up. I tried to engage and get you to clarify and you just replied with even more vague "trust me I'm stupor smaht N kno duh secrets" nonsense.
So they have never found drugs or weapons in a container ship in a US port? Why do they have drug sniffing dogs at the ports? Can the satellites see the contents of all the containers on every ship?
I pitty the dumb mutherfuckers that come ahsore in a country that has 46% of the worlds guns.
Maybe they are concerned about the icbm's built into cargo containers? Maybe it's best they don't enter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-based_X-band_Radar We have lots of these one will soon be sunk or has been by a submarine. We just haven’t heard about it yet. Hunt for Red October,
Our own gov is why our country is surrounded by product-laden ships that cannot dock and unoad. The entire "shortage" issues are premeditated. Gov tells our own growers to destroy their crops. WTF would that be happening?
Freemasons/Jesuits.