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True. But let's also note that being CEO of a company in the industry doesn't automatically make you right, nor does it mean that when you speak to a reporter o
by KennyBlanken 5y ago
True. But let's also note that being CEO of a company in the industry doesn't automatically make you right, nor does it mean that when you speak to a reporter or send out a tweet thread like this you don't have some sort of agenda. There's almost always an agenda. Maybe that agenda is honest and in line with public interest, maybe it isn't. And twitter is less reliable than a news story, because usually reporters seek more than one source and try to verify what they can, how they can. They're by no means perfect, but this dude can write whatever he wants.
I suspect that this measure just delays the inevitable. I'm also wondering why the limit of 2-high stacks exists (I'm guessing safety related in event of an earthquake?)
He has a lot of ideas in his other tweet thread, but I noticed that in his long list of ideas nowhere to be found was "offer better pay and working conditions for truckers."
The core issue is not too many containers. It's not enough truckers picking up the new containers, so there's no room for the old ones. And because the ships can't be unloaded, nobody can take the containers back to other ports.
It doesn't help that the full-in-union longshoremen (not the part-timer union guys) get way, way over $100k a year, some of them making $300k...and with zero requirements to meet any sort of metrics. They shouldn't be incentivized to where safety is compromised, but surely there is a balance. Right now they have zero incentive to do anything about the problem. The port sits doing nothing...and they sit too, getting paid.
- IanCal 5y ago> The core issue is not too many containers. It's not enough truckers picking up the new containers, This doesn't make sense to me unless the truckers are currently extremely busy. And if they are, why is there now a problem? Are there suddenly far fewer truckers?
- bobthepanda 5y agoTrucking is not an easy job. The working conditions are poor, you have to pay a fair amount of any benefits out of pocket, and like most "gig" economy stuff the logistics companies are driving a relentless rate towards the bottom. According to the American Trucking Association, turnover rates for drivers have been at about 90% for a decade. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/05/25/999784202/is-there-really-a-truck-driver-shortage https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/05/25/999784202/is-t... I would assume that the tight job market is making things worse.
- native_samples 5y agoIt's a knock-on effect from lockdowns. Governments got it in their heads that they could partition the economy into "essential" and "non-essential" and could make massive interventions without any side effects. So everyone has to work from home, not go to restaurants anymore, port rules are constantly changing in ways that screw over shipping firms, the economy tanks, everything including logistics is thrown into chaos. Meanwhile people who are ideologically blind to the costs of government intervention sit around and say "why now?! what's happened to cause this?", ignoring the ocean-sized elephant in the room. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/cave-man-capitalism https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/cave-man-capitalism