And the fun part is that these inbound ships are how the US gets empty containers to be able to export goods to foreign clients and a lot of times the US companies only get paid (or start the clock to get paid) once cargo is loaded to a ship.
Zero ships from China are bound for California’s top ports. Officials haven’t seen that since the pandemic
Submitted 3 days ago by death@infosec.pub to economics@lemmy.world
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/10/business/zero-ships-china-trade-ports-pandemic
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ItWasTheDNS@lemmy.world 3 days ago
modeler@lemmy.world 3 days ago
There’s a database that tracks empty containers - right now there are an unusually huge number of empty containers in the US, probably from the pre-tariff surge. The US is fine for a while.
ItWasTheDNS@lemmy.world 3 days ago
flatracks and open tops are tough to get right now
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
It’s about to get real in the US. What’s the over/under on the day panic buying starts?
satanmat@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Anyone who is paying attention has already started…
Fortunately, most day to day needs are not shipped from china; TP and foodstuffs. But the darkest part of this is the knock on effects-- tech; hard drives, phones and devices; toys and consumer goods
If they are not being shipped, they don’t need longshoremen to unload-- they don’t need truckers to get them to distribution centers- they don’t need people to work in the stores. And when all those people lose hours or jobs; they can’t spend money at other stores or restaurants…
The USA is a goods and services economy and when you gut goods; no one can afford any services.
We rely on trade and the President has such a bass awkward understanding of economics and is so dogmatic in his refusal to listen
Yeah we’re fucked.
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