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My understanding is Chinese ports have a much higher level of automation than ours. Whether or not that translates into overall higher efficiency I do not know.
by alistairSH 2y ago
My understanding is Chinese ports have a much higher level of automation than ours. Whether or not that translates into overall higher efficiency I do not know.
- diggan 2y agoSo you go from: > allow automation because we (the rest of the country) need efficient, competitive ports to play in the world economy to: > Chinese ports have a much higher level of automation than ours. Whether or not that translates into overall higher efficiency I do not know. How are you able to make the former argument if you don't actually know it'll help at all?
- alistairSH 2y agoThey want a total ban on automation of gates, trucks, and cranes. [1] Gates? Come on, do we really need to pay somebody $150k+ to open/close a gate? The same article implies the west coast ports apparently also have more automation than the east coast ports. And depending on who you believe (the union or a CA professor), the automation didn't hurt man/hours at the ports. 1- https://apnews.com/article/longshoremen-strike-pay-automation-ports-jobs-consumers-3aa66e0a05db25a49645fad404a5f000 https://apnews.com/article/longshoremen-strike-pay-automatio...