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Re:Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded... by skohan on Monday March 29, 2021 @11:56AM (#26623729)
I work on an IoT product, and operations is already talking about potential production delays because of this. There's already a global plastic shortage, and this is only going to make things worse.
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Re:Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded... by oasisbob on Monday March 29, 2021 @02:56PM (#26626594)
> There's already a global plastic shortage

Whoa, bad time to be in IoT then, since they're pretty much entirely plastic and a few (also probably short) components!

https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/plastic-scrap-demand-...

https://www.icis.com/explore/resources/news/2021/03/10/10615...

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Re:Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded... by hinkley on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:31PM (#26624311)
The silver lining there is that more companies should be able to absorb a double delivery when three weeks of goods all show up at once.

Most businesses can’t just skip a week and then process twice as much raw goods to catch up.

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