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Piers_Williamson

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  1. 18 hours ago, agedhorse said:

    For those wondering why all manufacturers are experiencing delays, here are a couple of good shipping industry articles that outline the specific issues being encountered, and why:

    https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/will-container-shipping-reliability-come-back/

    https://theloadstar.com/blanked-sailings-and-covid-19-bounce-back-bring-new-congestion-at-ports/

    What we are seeing more shipments (both inbound to us outbound to Europe) being delayed for a variety of reasons, but primarily from canceled sailings where the shipping line simply eliminates a ship's trip and consolidates those containers on a later shipment. Since ships do not leave every day, and in fact they can leave every other week between some ports, resulting in accumulated delays if two trips get canceled back to back.

    This makes predicting anything related to delivery more and more difficult (and frustrating to everybody concerned, including us).

    I'm loving this site as an alternative economics site, from a bunch of very diverse people who just happen to have one thing in common (a love of things 4/5/6.....string)

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  2. 15 hours ago, Misdee said:

    Maybe we are all being too cynical.

    When I was a kid we played at World War 2 with Action Man . Maybe kids nowadays need to play at Motorhead with dolls like this one. An afternoon spent with other children acting out  imagined scenarios from the Bomber Tour during  the autumn of 1979 could be both  therapeutic  and educational. They could use Barbie dolls as groupies, and Blue Peter could show you how to make a hotel room out of an old shoe box.

     

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