Asafoetida…Golden Seal Root
It worked once before?
Show me actually proof there is a pandemic. Funny, I've been watching the Port of Los Angeles, and Oakland, and Vancouver while ships from China are pulling right in. No turn-backs, no quarantines, just right up pierside
How is it not a single report of ship's crew turning up with this virus? Dockworkers? Crane Operators? Anybody? Nope, nothing
OOCL NEW YORK, pierside in Vancouver. Voyaged from Taiwan. Check out the previous port calls
I've noticed most voyages from China are 14 days travel to Los Angeles/Long Beach. If this bug really can live for 28 days without a host still plenty of time.
America’s Surge Sealift: What Are They Not Telling Us?
January 28, 2020
By Salvatore R. Mercogliano, Ph.D. – On January 22, 2020, the Inspector General (IG) for the Department of Defense released a declassified and redacted report, entitled, Audit of Surge Sealift Readiness Reporting. The surge sealift fleet, those 15 vessels held by the Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) and the 46 by the Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD), are a key component of the nation’s ability to project military power from the continental United States. The recent Turbo Activation 19 Plus exercise in September 2019, tested the reliability of this fleet, and showed it fell far short of the 85% readiness rate required, with an overall performance of 40%. The new IG report indicates that there may be more systemic issues at the root of the problem but fails to adequately identify the underlying cause of these issues.
The IG undertook the audit to determine if the U.S. Transportation Command provided, “adequate oversight of the reporting on surge sealift activation requirements.” Specifically, they examined the 50 roll-on/roll-off ships (15 held by MSC and 35 by MARAD), that provide a total of 10.7 million square feet of cargo space for the combatant commanders. The information on the individual ships is reported through the Defense Readiness Reporting System. The information is inputted by MSC based on reports from the contract operators and via the Maritime Administration from their commercial companies.
The IG determined that “MSC did not accurately report the readiness status for 15 MSC-owned surge sealift ships during FYs 2017 and 2018.” The cause for this was due to MSC’s reliance on, “ship contractors to accurately report ship readiness.” As a result of inaccurate reporting, US Transportation Command provided unreliable assessments of the surge sealift capability and this, “could lead geographic combatant commanders to make incorrect assumptions.” It also highlights the difference in reporting ship status procedures between MSC and MARAD, an issue previously addressed in a 2019 RAND Corporation report, Approaches to Strategic Sealift Readiness.
The Inspector General proposed five recommendations:
Verify that deficiencies identified in ship inspection reports match the corresponding contractor-issued casualty reports.
Hold contractors accountable when casualty reports do not match ship inspection reports or are not submitted as required.
Reconcile casualty reports to the ship’s reported status in DRRS-N to ensure accurate ship readiness reporting.
Develop an agreement with MARAD to establish standard criteria for readiness assessments for MSC and MARAD surge sealift ships.
Develop an oversight plan to verify the readiness status of the MARAD ships and coordinate with MARAD to obtain the documentation and establish the process necessary for MSC to perform the oversight.
These recommendations will address the reporting by MARAD and MSC to U.S. Transportation Command, but misses the larger issue, why are the companies operating these ships not reporting the issues and how is MSC not assessing the surge sealift fleet’s status? The IG met and interviewed with personnel from MARAD, MSC, and the U.S. Transportation Command but only talked with three ship masters. The IG failed to talk with the companies that operated MSC’s and MARAD’s vessels. Interviewing the companies could have revealed the underlying issue.
More here:
https://gcaptain.com/americas-surge-sealift-what-are-they-not-telling-us/