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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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! 😏