I've had warning form vendors that this is already beginning to affect their supply chain.
two vendors I use have shipments of nitrile gloves delayed because of this and they were already in fairly short supply.
Where are you getting your nitrile from?
IMO they are blowing smoke up your bum. There are huge delays through the nitrile chain right now that are completely unrelated to the Suez situation- no doubt this situation is likely to affect all cargo shipments as ports back up and scheduling changes and the system tries to restart after the big clog. But this route is a weird one for nitrile glove making.
Turkey is a big producer of Nitrile gloves but they also make their own nitrile, ditto southern europe. The rest of the producers are really located in south asia. Suez shouldn't effect it too much.
Well now that this is over we need another slow moving crisis to entertain us. I vote against an Iceland volcano, that's a bit too messed up.
New thread material... combination of personal loss, some deep rabbit-hole related conspiracy, cats, politics, and of course some consumer product we all/mostly use (besides TP, which was covered in 2020). Ideas?
IMO they are blowing smoke up your bum. There are huge delays through the nitrile chain right now that are completely unrelated to the Suez situation- no doubt this situation is likely to affect all cargo shipments as ports back up and scheduling changes and the system tries to restart after the big clog. But this route is a weird one for nitrile glove making.
Turkey is a big producer of Nitrile gloves but they also make their own nitrile, ditto southern europe. The rest of the producers are really located in south asia. Suez shouldn't effect it too much.
yeah. that wouldn't be the first time a vendor is full of crap.
Somewhat related to the events in this thread, but Cheddar released an interesting video on the cost of building bigger and bigger ships on the ports they use:
Somewhat related to the events in this thread, but Cheddar released an interesting video on the cost of building bigger and bigger ships on the ports they use:
interesting last video. Quite notable environmental damage that rarely makes news headlines, however a single bird in an oil sands settling pond makes national news.
interesting last video. Quite notable environmental damage that rarely makes news headlines, however a single bird in an oil sands settling pond makes national news.
I found the taxpayer costs of dredging and port improvements to be surprising as well. I guess I suspected these issues would be a collaboration between shipping industry and governments/port authorities, as there are only so many ports that can accept international shipping. but it is really a "we are building this thing, if your port can't handle it we will go somewhere else"
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I found the taxpayer costs of dredging and port improvements to be surprising as well. I guess I suspected these issues would be a collaboration between shipping industry and governments/port authorities, as there are only so many ports that can accept international shipping. but it is really a "we are building this thing, if your port can't handle it we will go somewhere else"
Being the curious George that I am... I'm wondering what construction limitations may exist when deepening a channel and what they can do in order to shore up the "edges" as it were. I suspect the reason the pricing is so high is because it must also include for all new docks with substantially deeper piles and structural supports for both the existing infrastructure plus the new docks/cranes. Quite incredible actually.
The other interesting part was that these massive taxpayer funded ventures are basically built on the historical presence of these ships and HOPING that they will continue to come.
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must show all Flames games nationally when they play on Saturdays, Mondays, and Wednesdays !!!
