This Is Proper Development
Development the rest of the world is severely lacking compared to what the Chinese have managed to complete. I look at the ports in South Africa and there has been nothing new added in the last 30 years.
This is what the Chinese have achieved over the last 13 years with regard to expanding their rail network. This is seriously impressive and definitely puts into context what your own country has done in that time period. I know here in South Africa very little has been achieved with regard to the infrastructure and suggest most countries have not been as active as they should have been.
With regard to the supply chain issues we are now witnessing this should have been highlighted years ago foreseeing this problem. Ships have got much bigger yet the ports have remained the same with very little upgrading. Bigger ships means more containers requiring more space otherwise there is an obvious bottle neck about to happen.
Would the Chinese have problems with their Ports if they were on the receiving end? I doubt it even though they have container shortages of their own because everyone else has them due to the imbalance of imports and exports.
The Port of Los Angeles is a prime example having no forward planning resulting in a 6.6 km log jam if you put just the container ships back to back. Those are the ships you can see and what about the others anchored 150 km off shore waiting in a holding pattern. It doesn't look so bad if you cant see them I suppose and the excuse is to reduce air pollution.
We are roughly 6 weeks from Christmas and knowing how logistics works being involved within the industry for over 20 years whatever is on the water at the start of December will not make it to the retail shelves in time for Christmas. Saying that most items no doubt wont have to reach the retail shelves as most items are bough online these days so just hitting a warehouse rack would suffice for now.
The brains in retail these days are about to be burned alive with their new supply chain models they all think will work. Shorter lead times for delivery means less storage and quicker return on investments through sales. This looks good in a text book but in real life is a very risky method of working. One holdup could bring the entire business down like a house of cards which we are slowly witnessing play out. Greed has got us to this point and it is going to cost fortunes to get everyone out of it. Consumers will fit the bill with excuses blaming inflation and higher logistics costs.
I have seen when a warehouse is under pressure and the more you try and move the slower the process becomes. Something that would take 3 days to turn around suddenly moves out to 10 days and the time gaps become greater. Seeing these types of volumes this late in the festive season still waiting to reach the Port is very concerning.
Black Friday which when first thought up was not thinking of the consumer but more the warehousing space. In order to move out older inventory to make space for the new they needed a marketing gimmick and hence Black Friday was born.
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