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 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