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>>20103942
Shipping Industry Braces for Long Haul Without Key Trade Route
By Alex Longley, Áine Quinn and Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) — December 19, 2023
The global shipping industry is bracing for the prospect of living without its most important trade route for weeks.
Even as the US works to pull together a task force to stop Houthi militants in Yemen from attacking commercial vessels, shippers are still waiting for details, and worry about implementation. The Houthis are attacking ships to show support for Hamas in its war against Israel, and some in the region worry that too forceful a response will only escalate the violence.
So shippers are sending vessels the long way around Africa, adding $1 million in costs — and seven to 10 days of time — to each voyage. Oil prices are creeping higher.
The attacks have created potentially a worse — and more enduring — shipping emergency than the Suez Canal shutdown in 2021, when a ship stuck for a week snarled global trade for months. As vessels hauling everything from oil to grains to autos are forced to sail around Africa, the extra costs and delays pose risks to the global economy, just as inflation looked set to be cooling.
“It could be anything between, hopefully, days or weeks but of course there are also scenarios to think about when it takes longer,” Rolf Habben Jansen, chief executive of German container carrier Hapag-Lloyd, which has stopped sailing the Red Sea, told Bloomberg TV.
For captains and companies, even the possible fixes pose problems. Naval convoys shepherding ships through the perilous stretch of water could offer some protection, but it’s not straightforward.
“It will slow down the trade because we will have to wait for a convoy to pass through” the region, Euronav NV Chief Executive Officer Alexander Saverys said in an interview with Bloomberg TV. The oil tanker giant has halted all shipments via the Red Sea and won’t go back until such military escorts are in place.
The Pentagon hasn’t yet detailed how the so-called Operation Prosperity Guardian will protect ships. Vincent Clerc, the chief executive of container shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, reckons it will take a few weeks for the task force to become operational.
Loose convoys, or group transits, which follow a certain route have been used in the past when Somali piracy was an issue, according to Jakob Paaske Larsen, head of maritime safety and security at shipping industry group Bimco. It’s also possible to try and secure a broad area and deploy military units according to the situation, he said.
A strict convoy — where military ships escort vessels — is probably less likely as “it’s so resource-intensive,” Larsen said. “I just don’t think that there will be enough warships.”
The US-led coalition that is participating in Operation Prosperity Guardian includes only a handful of European Union countries. Spain has said its involvement is subject to EU and NATO decisions, state news wire EFE reported Tuesday, citing the ministry of defense.
Washington has also asked Australia to join, a request essentially rebuffed by the government in Canberra.
Those details may delay the time it takes for the security situation to be brought under control, said Munro Anderson, head of operations at marine war risk and insurance specialist Vessel Protect.
“Commercial operators are only going to return to the area where they can be assured of the effectiveness of security provisions being implemented,” he said. “With the latest announcement it is hard to see how this is being achieved.”
https://gcaptain.com/shipping-industry-braces-for-long-haul-without-key-trade-route/
Do you have the "Grunge Hotwheels?"
I cannot change that which you do not possess
Esteemed Anon,
Scotland called that shit in April
Canada #42 >>18796435
Zelenskyy is a Dead Man Walking
Iain Muir 29 April 2023
As Zelenskyy continues to drive Ukraine further into complete destruction, it’s only a matter of time before he is either killed in the process of conflict or at the hands of his own people.
The constant flow of young Ukrainians being sent into an impossible and suicidal confrontation with Russian Forces is being seriously questioned among Ukrainians.
They are seeing the return from the Battlefields of tens of thousands of Bodybags and Coffins containing the remains of their loved ones. Fathers, husbands, and sons.
The next generation of Ukrainians won’t exist simply because it will be impossible for them to be born.
The US-sponsored proxy war with Russia which has been fermenting since around 2002, has manifested slowly into the most unbelievably wreckless dispatch of so many Ukrainians. Estimates of between 100,000 and 300,000 dead Servicemen and three times the amount of wounded. It’s almost impossible to get a fix on the exact numbers as they are constantly obscured by the Kiev regime.
But they cannot hide the tens of thousands of Graves. https://scotlandtoday.online/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE-Cemetery-in-Khmelnitsky-plenty-of-fresh-graves.-All-these-men-died-for-the-bloodthirsty-Americans-TubeRipper.com_.mp4
Zelenskyy continues with his daily statements of inflammatory and deluded rhetoric. “Ukraine will win,” even though it’s blindingly obvious that Ukraine is outnumbered and outgunned by Russia and NATO isn’t coming to the fight. “We can’t win without Western Weapons,” he says, over a year into his ill-conceived “War Plan.”
But it is drawing to an end. Western enthusiasm for “Poor Ukraine,” is at the point of public, political, and diplomatic exhaustion. “The collective West,” has collectively had enough of Zelenskyy’s continuous demands and huge shopping lists.
“We can win if you give us this or that or the next thing,” has grown old and tiresome. It’s impossible for the Cocaine-fuelled Shrimp Zelenskyy and his crew of retarded Banderites not to see this.
The moment will come when Zelenskyy will have to leave the country or risk being captured or strung from a Lamppost in Kiev by his own people. If we in the West have had enough, the Ukrainian people must certainly have had enough. He has achieved nothing and lost everything.
Western Nations don’t want to be in conflict or at war with Russia. We are past that stage in our evolution, yet here we are. 2023 with a raging conflict bringing death and destruction to our doorstep. And not just any old death and destruction. This could easily go Nuclear. It wouldn’t take much as we’ve already reached so many danger points.
Sitting safely away some 7,000 miles to the West are those responsible for this whole disgusting enterprise. The US administration with its practically Mummified President, Joe Biden, and his Troupe of Neandertal warmongering Zombies. Nuland, Blinken, and numerous more like them. War Criminals, and not just for what they have brought about in Ukraine, but all around our World. The constant stream of conflicts of which Ukraine is simply another disposable country on the list.
https://scotlandtoday.online/zelenskyy-is-a-dead-man-walking
I know the feeling
The mimic?
Naw, just a sad little thing desperate for attention. So far beneath notice that shareblue would not give it a cubicle
Rush put it to music, in 1980
"The Spirit Of Radio"
Begin the day with a friendly voice
A companion unobtrusive
Plays that song that's so elusive
And the magic music makes your morning mood
Off on your way, hit the open road
There is magic at your fingers
For the Spirit ever lingers
Undemanding contact in your happy solitude
Invisible airwaves crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free
All this machinery making modern music
Can still be open-hearted
Not so coldly charted
It's really just a question of your honesty, yeah
Your honesty
One likes to believe in the freedom of music
But glittering prizes and endless compromises
Shatter the illusion of integrity
Invisible airwaves crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free
"For the words of the profits were written on the studio wall
Concert hall
And echoes with the sound of salesmen…of salesmen…of salesmen."
https://www.rush.com/songs/the-spirit-of-radio/
RISING SUN
continue with the assignment no matter how futile
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>Are you accusing ChatGPT of projecting?
Did you think for one second before you posted that?
>Why don't you try and go to ChatGPT and try out the prompt I posted?
I'd rather have the thing work hard to find me
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Carriers Roll Out Peak Season Surcharges as Capacity Crunch Looms
By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – December 19, 2023
Ocean carriers are imposing emergency peak season surcharges (PSSs) as global supply chains face weeks of disruption with ships being re-routed via Southern Africa instead of using the much shorter transit via the Suez Canal.
Japanese carrier ONE said today that from 1 January it would introduce an emergency PSS of $500 per teu on the Asia-Europe westbound trade, “in view of continuous strong demand … in order to maintain space provision, equipment supply and product service levels”.
The PSS will be a major blow to Asia-North Europe shippers already having to come to terms with new FAK (freight all kinds) rates on the route of $3,000 per 40ft on 1 January.
And despite the establishment yesterday of a US-led multinational ‘Operation Prosperity Guardian’ naval task force security initiative in the Red Sea, carriers say they will avoid the Suez Canal until further notice.
Hapag-Lloyd’s 14,993 teu, 2016-built Al Jasrah was attacked by a drone missile while southbound in the Red Sea on Friday, causing a fire onboard. Fortunately, none of the crew was injured and the vessel was able to proceed on its return voyage to Asia.
However, the carrier said it regarded the situation in the region as “unsafe, and the risks for our crews onboard unacceptable”.
It added: “This is why we have had to take the decision to avoid the Suez Canal and the Red Sea with immediate effect, and instead route our ships around the Cape of Good Hope.”
THE Alliance partner ONE said it had also decided to immediately re-route its ships around the Cape, “or have the vessels wait in a safe location”.
Indeed, a number of vessels that have transited the Suez Canal southbound have been instructed to pause and are, effectively, stranded pending a decision on whether they continue their voyages through the dangerous narrow Bab al- Mandeb Strait, off Yemen, or return to the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal, incurring a further circa-$500,000 toll.
And, in another potentially worrying development for shippers, French carrier CMA CGM said that, due to the situation in the Red Sea, it was invoking a force majeure clause in its bill of lading, relieving it of the liability of non-performance.
In practice, this may be a technicality, but nevertheless it enables the carrier to discharge or ‘overland’ cargo at a port not specified in the bill of lading without being responsible for the on-carriage or relay of containers.
Meanwhile, in its latest Insights publication, supply chain platform Project44 concludes that commodities, including oil, will be the first to be impacted by the Suez Canal diversions, but thereafter retailers will have difficulty replenishing out-of-stock items after the holiday season.
“The world is dependent on trade with Asia for anything from electronics, clothes and manufacturing materials, and this could have major implications for retailers in Europe and the US,” said Project44.
https://gcaptain.com/carriers-roll-out-peak-season-surcharges-as-capacity-crunch-looms/