Wondering where your stuff from overseas is? Shipaggedon!

[Jared0425]

Well the stupid sheeple are hoarding TP already. It’s mostly made in the US. Low information types. Search #portstrike on FB or X. The amount of derp from ill-spelt, badly written, conspiracy theory laden posts is highly entertaining. Ignorant people. The tin foil hats need to be loosened.

The stevedors are going the way of carriage makers. It was mentioned in another thread that when Baltimore was inoperable due to the bridge accident, that Virginia which was a low volume port easily accommodated Baltimore's traffic. The East coast ports are not the powerhouse they think they are.

 

[chillyinCanada]

Great another thing to worry about. Going on day 5 of no power in ohio. Nothing like $35/day in generator gas.

Why is the power out in Ohio?

 

[Marie13]

Why is the power out in Ohio?

Some parts of OH got hit by the remnants of Helene.

 

[Marie13]

The stevedors are going the way of carriage makers. It was mentioned in another thread that when Baltimore was inoperable due to the bridge accident, that Virginia which was a low volume port easily accommodated Baltimore's traffic. The East coast ports are not the powerhouse they think they are.

I would not call Norfolk a low volume port. It would be better to say that Baltimore has low enough container numbers that Norfolk could easily handle it. Norfolk doesn’t handle NY/NJ’s numbers, but it’s not Baltimore.

 

[Ez E]

Why is the power out in Ohio?

We had some particularly nasty winds and rain from the hurricane.

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

Well the stupid sheeple are hoarding TP already. It’s mostly made in the US. Low information types. Search #portstrike on FB or X. The amount of derp from ill-spelt, badly written, conspiracy theory laden posts is highly entertaining. Ignorant people. The tin foil hats need to be loosened.

The trick is to not use toilet paper.

 

[TravisD]

I don't know how much this actually affected container traffic in LA this week, but interesting video of a Lithium battery accident and fire that snarled traffic near one of the container handling areas in LA.

 

[Seaweed Doc]

Marie, do you expect a lot of the shipping will be routed to west coast ports?

During the pandemic, one of our most popular training dive sites looked out on to the main Port of Seattle facilities. It was crazy how many ships were stacked up, waiting to be unloaded.

 

[Ez E]

I heard on the radio that the east cost longshoremen reached a tentative agreement. Seems shipping will resume.

 

[Manatee Diver]

They've reached a contract extension until Jan 15th 2025 agreeing to something like a 60% pay increase, but supposedly there is stil the sticking point over automation, so we may still see the strike.

But that will conveniently be after the election.