For those without Twitter or in need of image translations, the above reads, "Meanwhile, on the #SuezCanal" and features the iconic video clip of Ross from Friends screaming PIVOT!!! as he, Chandler and Rachel try to strong arm his new couch up the stairs at his apartment complex, jamming it so badly they had to tear it apart to get it out.
Post by ellipses84 on Mar 24, 2021 17:49:25 GMT -5
It’s all fun and games until your refrigerator doesn’t get delivered on time...
In my field, I hear about the ripple effect of things like this and natural disasters. Anything that impacts the supply chain can have a major impact on construction schedules.
My dad used to work on huge cargo ships and I spent tons of time at the locks at the Great Lakes as a kid, but this scale is still hard to imagine!
It’s all fun and games until your refrigerator doesn’t get delivered on time...
In my field, I hear about the ripple effect of things like this and natural disasters. Anything that impacts the supply chain can have a major impact on construction schedules.
My dad used to work on huge cargo ships and I spent tons of time at the locks at the Great Lakes as a kid, but this scale is still hard to imagine!
The supply chain has been greatly impacted over the last year. From employee shortages to a shift in needs for raw materials. This is only causing more headaches. We are heading into busy season with bids and supply movement. This is only going to complicate things. Sure it looks like a day of delay on the surface, but it’s a much larger web this has created. I am sure we have customers going bananas right now.
I had one vessel move containers off to go ground to a different port. This is a logistical nightmare on a normal day. But when it’s time sensitive and you don’t know when you will be moving you do what you can to save it.
This whole incident just highlights again how much happens in this world that I never even think about. Obviously stuff moves on huge cargo ships, but I’ve never really stopped to think about what happens when things go awry.
It had never even occurred to me that a ship could get stuck and take that long to get out. It makes sense, it’s just so far off of my radar. And then my mind wants to think that once it’s moving again, everyone just goes along their merry little way. I hadn’t stopped to think about the ripple effect of everything.
What’s that quote about the more you learn, the more you realize how little you know? I feel like I get dumber every day!
It was dislodged, but not moved. They are working on turning it. Could be a two day process. 🤦🏻♀️
Check on me in a day or two. I may not be okay 🤣
Are you able to share with us any of the problems this causes? Like generally not specifics.
Like lilac05 this was like a piece of the world functioning I have never even thought about! I mean I knew stuff traveled bu container to get from one place to another but the actual logistics of it has never entered my mind space.
It’s fascinating to me! I’m sorry it’s causing headaches for you though.
This cargo ship got stuck and flipped over on its side. Fortunately, they were able to move it out of the channel before that happened so it's not blocking anything.
Now it's being cut up into pieces and removed. Look at all the cars that shifted to the bottom area. It had around 4500 cars on it.
I had a good chuckle at myself this morning when I thought “maybe it’s stuck in the Suez Canal” when I got an email saying my Old Navy order delivery was delayed.
It was dislodged, but not moved. They are working on turning it. Could be a two day process. 🤦🏻♀️
Check on me in a day or two. I may not be okay 🤣
Are you able to share with us any of the problems this causes? Like generally not specifics.
Like lilac05 this was like a piece of the world functioning I have never even thought about! I mean I knew stuff traveled bu container to get from one place to another but the actual logistics of it has never entered my mind space.
It’s fascinating to me! I’m sorry it’s causing headaches for you though.
It was dislodged, but not moved. They are working on turning it. Could be a two day process. 🤦🏻♀️
Check on me in a day or two. I may not be okay 🤣
Are you able to share with us any of the problems this causes? Like generally not specifics.
Like lilac05 this was like a piece of the world functioning I have never even thought about! I mean I knew stuff traveled bu container to get from one place to another but the actual logistics of it has never entered my mind space.
It’s fascinating to me! I’m sorry it’s causing headaches for you though.
I'm not mysteriouswife, but if you think about it - this has made the Suez Canal unusable for 3-4 days, at a minimum. Think about the knock on effects when, say, a major airport in the US is closed due to storms. The backups of umpteen flights that had to circle and wait to land, the flights that didn't take off because they couldn't be guaranteed safe landing, the flights delayed, or postponed, the gates at other airports that now need to play the mad shuffle game because planes aren't leaving on schedule...
This is like that, but for _days_, and with ships carrying cargo instead of planes that carry both passengers and cargo. I have to imagine this canal normally operates at near 100% utilization - it's such a key shipping route. So several days of not being able to send _anything_ thru it means that some folks are having to scramble to find alternate routes for cargo (if possible - the alternate shipping option is to go around the south end of Africa, and the seas down there can be rough, in addition to adding days and days of travel - this is the shortest route from most, maybe all, of the Pacific to the Mediterranean). Because by the time they clear the backup of ships that need to traverse the Canal, I bet it'll be a couple weeks before they're back to normal, at a minimum.
So, think about the impacts of anything travelling between, say, India and Europe. It's all been delayed by a week or more. Along with anything else that takes that route. I assume it's a huge % of worldwide shipping. OK, just googled, and 12% of worldwide shipping goes thru this canal. So 12% of anything being shipped right now is basically delayed by a week. Or more. Raw materials, finished goods, and everything in between.
Are you able to share with us any of the problems this causes? Like generally not specifics.
Like lilac05 this was like a piece of the world functioning I have never even thought about! I mean I knew stuff traveled bu container to get from one place to another but the actual logistics of it has never entered my mind space.
It’s fascinating to me! I’m sorry it’s causing headaches for you though.
I'm not mysteriouswife, but if you think about it - this has made the Suez Canal unusable for 3-4 days, at a minimum. Think about the knock on effects when, say, a major airport in the US is closed due to storms. The backups of umpteen flights that had to circle and wait to land, the flights that didn't take off because they couldn't be guaranteed safe landing, the flights delayed, or postponed, the gates at other airports that now need to play the mad shuffle game because planes aren't leaving on schedule...
This is like that, but for _days_, and with ships carrying cargo instead of planes that carry both passengers and cargo. I have to imagine this canal normally operates at near 100% utilization - it's such a key shipping route. So several days of not being able to send _anything_ thru it means that some folks are having to scramble to find alternate routes for cargo (if possible - the alternate shipping option is to go around the south end of Africa, and the seas down there can be rough, in addition to adding days and days of travel - this is the shortest route from most, maybe all, of the Pacific to the Mediterranean). Because by the time they clear the backup of ships that need to traverse the Canal, I bet it'll be a couple weeks before they're back to normal, at a minimum.
So, think about the impacts of anything travelling between, say, India and Europe. It's all been delayed by a week or more. Along with anything else that takes that route. I assume it's a huge % of worldwide shipping. OK, just googled, and 12% of worldwide shipping goes thru this canal. So 12% of anything being shipped right now is basically delayed by a week. Or more. Raw materials, finished goods, and everything in between.
Yes I understand all of this big-level stuff. I guess I was wondering more of what kinds of problems this creates for one person doing their job.
This cargo ship got stuck and flipped over on its side. Fortunately, they were able to move it out of the channel before that happened so it's not blocking anything.
Now it's being cut up into pieces and removed. Look at all the cars that shifted to the bottom area. It had around 4500 cars on it.
We got our first Mini Cooper shipped from UK and I remember following the ship on a map through the Panama Canal. I can't imagine if we'd lost it due to something like this.
One of our favorite family memories is of DS's 3rd birthday. We woke up on a cruise ship and sailed through the Panama Canal. We had a balcony room so our view was peaceful and close-up.
The night before our passage we sat in the ocean at the entrance and watched ships line up in an orderly manner. They looked like rows of light over the water. Absolutely incredible. When the sun came up we traveled through the locks and watched the water levels rise and fall. An experience I want to re-live.
I'm not mysteriouswife, but if you think about it - this has made the Suez Canal unusable for 3-4 days, at a minimum. Think about the knock on effects when, say, a major airport in the US is closed due to storms. The backups of umpteen flights that had to circle and wait to land, the flights that didn't take off because they couldn't be guaranteed safe landing, the flights delayed, or postponed, the gates at other airports that now need to play the mad shuffle game because planes aren't leaving on schedule...
This is like that, but for _days_, and with ships carrying cargo instead of planes that carry both passengers and cargo. I have to imagine this canal normally operates at near 100% utilization - it's such a key shipping route. So several days of not being able to send _anything_ thru it means that some folks are having to scramble to find alternate routes for cargo (if possible - the alternate shipping option is to go around the south end of Africa, and the seas down there can be rough, in addition to adding days and days of travel - this is the shortest route from most, maybe all, of the Pacific to the Mediterranean). Because by the time they clear the backup of ships that need to traverse the Canal, I bet it'll be a couple weeks before they're back to normal, at a minimum.
So, think about the impacts of anything travelling between, say, India and Europe. It's all been delayed by a week or more. Along with anything else that takes that route. I assume it's a huge % of worldwide shipping. OK, just googled, and 12% of worldwide shipping goes thru this canal. So 12% of anything being shipped right now is basically delayed by a week. Or more. Raw materials, finished goods, and everything in between.
Yes I understand all of this big-level stuff. I guess I was wondering more of what kinds of problems this creates for one person doing their job.
Not specific to this incident, but my DH’s job is routinely impacted by situations like this.
He’s a construction superintendent that manages tall towers - high rise condos and offices, mostly. Often the finishes in these buildings come from overseas. Tile from Italy, cabinets from various places in Europe, etc. The material he needs is ordered many months in advance of when his trades will be installing. If something like this happens and his materials are delayed, his entire schedule gets shifted. DH will build in some fluff time but not much. He often has to shift the entire schedule around to make a date promised to the client. For example, normally he would put in tile then cabinets. Sometimes he has to do cabinets then tile (sort of. This is my simple way of explaining things). There’s a full downstream effect for the entire job site and hundreds of trades, who are scheduled to work on his job, then move on to another pretty quickly. Their schedules shift, which impacts another building, etc. etc.