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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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