'This is going to get worse before it gets better': Panama Canal pileup due to drought reaches 154 vessels
'This is going to get worse before it gets better': Panama Canal pileup due to drought reaches 154 vessels
There's definitely never going to be a perfect storm of supply chain issues that leave us absolutely fucked. Nope. No, sir.
Supply chain issues are predicted on a surplus of supplies. We can solve these issues by collapsing the inventory side of the equation.
Time to raise interest rates!
just when global supply chains were getting to something approaching normality
it's the new normal
Things will be broken. Things will be broken more often. Things will be broken for longer periods of time. Things will be broken in more severe ways. Everything will compound until, eventually, it’s not usable.
equal parts :sicko-yes: and :oh-shit:
Oh dear, price go up! How sad, certainly not my“Now is not the time to further stress supply chains that are still straining under ongoing logistical pressures,” said Stephen Lamar, president and CEO of the American Apparel & Footwear Association. He said surcharges and vessel restrictions will likely mean higher clothing and shoe prices for U.S. consumers this holiday season.
BOAT STUCK
PLEASE
WE'RE SO BACK
Unironically, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_shipping_routes
Of course, this requires us to have friendly relations with the two big countries bordering the Arctic, and...
glances at Russia
gets better
Another treat clog?
"this is going to get worse before it gets better" has been my mantra ever since I got my tie stuck in a hot dog roller at the kwik-e-mart
Block the Suez Panama Canal!
I figured that the canal was filled with ocean water, I'm sure there was some design purpose in keeping it freshwater when you wouldn't have this problem with ocean water but it seems like a very poor choice at the moment.
Lake Gatun, which is used to fill the locks, is one of the main freshwater reservoirs for Panama City and Colon.
The Panama Canal isn't a straight level trench from one coast to the other.
The majority of the actual water path from one side to the other goes through Gatun Lake (freshwater), which is above sea level. The canal doesn't go through the continent so much as over it. The locks and canal trenches were placed to take advantage of existing inland waterways as much as possible. The drought is a problem because the level of water in the lake is low enough that it isn't filling the canal properly.
Why don't they simply raise rates so someone will innovate more water to exist?
BREAKING: Musk "cyber dredge" proposal to clear Panama Pileup would cost $450 Billion
“It is quite simple, actually. It is basically a giant shovel, although reimagined. It’s quite complex.”
panama hyperloop?