Posted on 10/31/2021 4:40:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Every time Biden talks about jobs, it seems to always be “good paying union jobs”. I wonder if the supply chain problems are like the vaccine mandates. You must be jabbed to get a job and also you must also be in a union to get a job.
Is it costing the Chinese millions per day?
Or just a few shipping companies?
Or the distributors that are stateside?
Either way, I think it is a military action.
A siege.
Just one more strategy against We The People.
The one trucker I know fairly well made exactly that call. He refuses to own/drive a newer "emissions truck" (think DEF) and thus simply does not run into CA.
This fee the CA taliban is considering charging. Is that $100 a day for ships that are not even unloading? Even if it is just for ships taking up dock space, how is that their fault? If the ship is stuck because unloading is slow... As I understand it, ships don't make money sitting in port. Their owners/operators want them loaded/unloaded and moving, ASAP. All this additional fee would seem to be doing is generating a little more money for the CA taliban and providing yet another dis-incentive for businesses to have anything to do with CA.
I wonder when some of the ships waiting offshore will start sinking mysteriously. A nice insurance payout might seem better than losing more money with every passing day.
“ It will make things even worse at the ports and is going to be wild to watch it play out”.
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Seems to me that greater use should be made of the Panama Canal. Additional cost of the Canal would be offset by cost of sitting for months waiting to unload at LA or Long Beach. Additionally, if suppliers would load their container ships by destination, say west coast, Gulf of Mexico, east coast, it would greatly reduce land transport cost. Also would reduce cycle time of returning Container hauler time and cost, especially being that a large percent of them must dead-head back to a port to pick up another outbound load.
We need to manufacture what we need in the USA but build NOTHING in California.
This sounds good but from what I’ve heard the problem at the ports isn’t a shortage of trucks. In fact, there are lots of complaints from both truckers and residents about the backup of trucks waiting to load.
“They keep playing up the new $100 per day.. “
Yes, this is worse than the movie Idiocracy. California created the problem but their reps are far too stupid to understand it, much less fix it.
More likely will be the containers disappearing off the anchored ships. The waters off CA could be full of containers. When the backlog at terminals is reduced, salvage barges can begin lifting containers off the ocean floor.
How about this? The exact cause is because the Dems paid workers more money to stay home than to work and illegal immigrants driving down wages.
I think the insurance people might possibly get suspicious if several thousand containers were accidentally lost overboard, especially if the weather had been calm. Also, I doubt whether the contents of many containers would be worth salvaging after being sunk.
Cal port charges due to high unionized wages have been an issue for a long time. Mexico made strides in an end run and by connections to US rail by KSOuthern RR. That was the plan. Not sure it materialized. The trucking rules in ca now are doubling the problem. Kind of like embargoing the rest of US.
not sure Calif would allow that to be built. Canada maybe? - wonder if there are ports near Vancouver - redirect the ships and start the trucking from that point.
toss in the cost of diesel fuel and constant rona testing.....
Most of that stuff on those ships is containerized. It's just going to get trucked across country, with a fraction actually going into CA. Why not head to another west coast port and unload? If you fit, maybe even come through the canal and unload along the gulf or east coast? You'd pay your crew a few extra days - but you're paying them to sit aboard while they wait. The delta would be the fuel burn, maybe the canal fees and such. But if it gets you unloaded X days sooner, it might be worth the fuel and fees to go somewhere else. I've got to think that for the ships arriving now, with 100 or 200 or so ahead of them, there's no point in waiting, head out.
It’s ChiCom...
Who is getting hurt by this? The shipping companies of course, but who else? China for one. They can’t get their cheap junk into our stores and so the cash flow to China is drying up. What happens to a Ponzi scheme when the cash flow stops?
Currently China is facing a financial meltdown (of their own making).
In short, government, democrat party led government, created this major problem and now demands people vote once again for the democrat taliban party so they can use more government to fix the major problem that the same government created.
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The corollary is that to fix the current self-made problem, they will create a fix that is a still worse problem that has to be fixed - and the cycle continues.
I don’t know about the suitability of other West Coast ports. Portland, I think, has only one container terminal, and there’s also the question of how big a ship can cross the Columbia Bar and reach Portland. Seattle, no idea.
There are probably contractual issues as well.
Many ports cannot handle the largest container ships due either to ship size, port depth, crane height, etc.
The largest container ships (the most profitable at 24 containers wide) are too big to go though the Canal which can only handle ships 20 wide with the new upgrade. These ships would have to go a round the Cape to get to the US East Coast
Remember what President Reagan said was the most dangerous words in history of mankind: “Hello, we are from the federal government and we’re here to help!!!!” I completely agreed with him back then and still do all these 30-some odd years later.
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