Re:Where are all the containers? The global shortage explained
by kortilla on Saturday March 27, 2021 @06:51PM
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The chip shortage is completely normal supply and demand at work. Real markets are not magic faucets that supply an unlimited amount of things at a constant price.
We haven’t even hit government mandated rations for things and that was a matter of course several times throughout the 1900s.
The Suez Canal is a cost and time optimizer. There is an alternate path around South Africa that all of these mega ships are more than capable doing. Transport costs for some stuff and delays will go up, but that’s it. That won’t even impact people in the US in any meaningful way.
We haven’t even hit government mandated rations for things and that was a matter of course several times throughout the 1900s.
The Suez Canal is a cost and time optimizer. There is an alternate path around South Africa that all of these mega ships are more than capable doing. Transport costs for some stuff and delays will go up, but that’s it. That won’t even impact people in the US in any meaningful way.