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Supply Chain Under Threat As Major Shipping
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Posted By: DW626, 12/15/2023 12:50:09 PM

Major shipping company Mearsk has halted all cargo ship travel through the Red Sea as Iranian backed Houthi terrorists continue their assault in the region. "Container shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S instructed its vessels heading for the southern entrance of the Red Sea to pause their voyages after one of its carriers came under attack. The move threatens to undermine the global economic recovery and adds to pressure on the US to improve security along one of the worlds most important trade routes," Bloomberg reports. "Disruptions in the area can snarl supply chains and world trade.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: redriverranger 12/15/2023 1:08:46 PM (No. 1617901)
And it is the responsibility of the U.S. alone to improve security along the route ?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: snowoutlaw 12/15/2023 1:15:46 PM (No. 1617909)
All the more reason to Drill baby drill.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Luandir 12/15/2023 1:22:29 PM (No. 1617911)
And of course Pansy Biden won't take out any of the Houthi bases the way a real world power would.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 12/15/2023 1:31:24 PM (No. 1617921)
Major shipping route? Uh, not for much that I can think of. Oil doesn't much move that way, comparatively, far more in the Arabian Gulf. Now, the Suez Canal goes to the Red Sea....so folks shipping between Europe and India and Asia will be unhappy. Sounds like the ChiComs and the EU folks need to defend their supply routes and not depend on free policing from the "good old US of A" any more.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: TexaTucky 12/15/2023 1:33:06 PM (No. 1617923)
Sounds like a win to me. All that Chinese crap being dumped on America just got more expensive.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 12/15/2023 2:36:21 PM (No. 1617972)
Re #5, perhaps you should consult a map and note that no ship traffic from China to the US goes through the Red Sea......or within a few thousand miles of it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: CivilServant 12/15/2023 2:44:56 PM (No. 1617980)
Hmmmm, tell me you know NOTHING about petroleum as the basic building block of all plastics and its integration into the global supply chain without telling me….well, you know. Fungibility. It works both ways.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: TexaTucky 12/15/2023 4:21:26 PM (No. 1618035)
I was just testing you to see if you were paying attention to me, #6. In Kentucky high schools they forgot to teach us about logistics routes for cargo shippers.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: DVC 12/15/2023 4:46:10 PM (No. 1618056)
I think shipping to and from Europe to the middle east, India and Australia, Indonesia, Philippines and China are going to take a hit. The run around the Horn of southern Africa is going to add a LOT of time and money to ship traffic, which is why, of course, they built the Suez Canal, probably a couple thousand miles shorter.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Muguy 12/16/2023 7:38:13 AM (No. 1618482)
President Jefferson sent in the "leather necks" to Tripoli to protect American shipping navigating the Mediterranean Sea at one time from pirates. Hence "from the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli" song reference. That area is critical to the transport of oil, but why the heck do we need to rely on FOREIGN oil?? Agree with #2...all the way!
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