Supply Chain Collapse

https://www.maritime-executive.com/...pply-chain-challenges-will-continue-into-2022 This topic could fall under a variety of ongoing threads but considering this is just the beginning of a problem that is likely to escalate over the coming months , figured the ever growing information that will become available on this matter warranted its own thread . Either those in charge of various countries don't seem to realize their own actions of covid vaccine mandates are causing the supply chain collapse or perhaps they are following the orders of someone that wants to bring on a supply chain collapse .

 

Everything from reduced crane workers at the docks to unload shipping containers to reduced truckers to transport the products to warehouses and stores , the results will intensify .

 

A somewhat lengthy but well made and thought out video concerning the prepper and supply chain collapse .

 

I am rather fortunate in that I live in the woods and near a river/lake. I might get tired of bunny stew and fish but I won't starve. There are more cattle than people in the county as well and we have a wild hog problem. This is not a farming area unfortunatly but meat is everywhere.

We have plenty of land and have done a lot of big gardens in the past. We have tillers and all of the emplements that we need to grow our own food. We will have a few weeks of peace and quiet before the city folks will show up hungry and demanding help. The best that they will find is that someone will put them out of their misery.

 

This plan to survive on pigeon eggs or pigeons themselves , as I raise pigeons decided to give some pigeon information . Pigeons mate for life . I have seen a grieving pigeon laying beside a dying mate trying to coax them back to health . It is a sad thing to see . -- Pigeons will nest and lay eggs about twice a year . Seemingly always they lay 3 eggs . As can be expected they are small and I have for survival curiosity eaten one pigeon egg . It is eatable and richer in taste than a chicken egg . The downside even if there was a very large population of wild pigeons and somehow someone managed to find every nest and every egg , the food acquired would likely be less than one dozen medium size chicken eggs and that is considering that amount for the " entire year " . --- Honestly when I bought my starter pigeons , I bought them with the idea of eating pigeon eggs during teotwawki . I now know that is not practical simply because there is not enough food to be acquired through this plan . However I consider my pigeon endeavor a success as we on my survival grounds very much enjoy watching them fly about putting on ariel shows for us .

 

As things continue their collapse , decided to post again on the likely approaching of supply chain disintegration . As I have stated before consider preparing perpetual " never ending " survival plans . Just stocking up and hoping that the stocked supplies will outlast the S.H.T.F. event is likely to fail , unless someone is only preparing for minor temporary events . -- This brings me to the toilet paper crisis we all saw a few years back . It appears " it will " happen again plus the collapse of obtaining of food supplies . I have been cultivating mullein plants for but wipe material for years . Now I have an estimated 50 to 100 such plants on the standby for the collapse . Get your outhouse built if you haven't already done so .

 

I’d be less worried about toilet paper and more concerned with maintaining a supply of safe potable water. Dirty water, or even a change in the bacterial content of safe water can cause stomach upset which manifests as a bad case of the squits… this starts a vicious cycle of fluid loss, weakness, cross infection……safe drinking water is your primary concern and one of the weakest links in our supply chain in the UK.
When the power goes out sewage treatment plants will shut down, water pumping stations will shut down, control systems at dams and reservoirs will cease to operate. The sewage will divert to rivers and the taps will run dry.

 

As Ystranc points out, having potable water is one's #1 concern. What is maddening to witness is how much this critical-to-life prepping item is not given its proper place by, of all people, preppers!

Y'all know exactly what I'm talking about. "Prepper sites" give water filtration short shrift. How insane not to have this at the top of all prepping lists.

Especially in suburban and urban areas, during the SHTF events and those years -- not having clean water will be one of the TOP killers. WWII, European theater, my dad's company was disabled for days. Buzz bombs? German artillery? Nope, plain old dysentery. Armies have been destroyed by malaria, dysentery, and other maladies that are preventable if planners would plan.

I have multiple water filters.

This area has lots of rivers and streams; however, if you don't kill the germs and the parasites in "clean" water, you WILL get sick. I have a big iron pot and a heavy iron arm allowing us to make stew, boil water, heat-up the veggies over a big fire in our fireplace. Yes, there is a channel cut into the masonry to allow outside air in to feed the fire. You don't want your fireplace to be sucking the heat out of yours house. I also have 1" iron piping that loops under and over my fireplace fire so that room air can be sucked in at the bottom (away from the fire), heated, and convected out into the interior of our house. Gotta trap that heat. My people used to heat-up rocks and then at night put the rocks rolled up in blankets at the foot of their beds to give off heat during the night.

Broke another chain on my chainsaw. Crap! Have a replacement, but that's just sooo irritating. Learn from this idiot, have spare chains for your chainsaws.

Have axes and large saws should your chainsaw give out. I've cut I don't know how much wood with just a stupid pruning saw! A big one, but you'd be surprised how handy these are. Keep one in my truck along with a short axe. Get it out the truck toolbox when working back behind the house.

You need woodcutting tools in your vehicle. We sure do, anyway. When storms with high wind pass through, we lose numerous roads due to fallen trees. Used to, if at work and have a storm come through, I'd check the online state road maps to see which roads had gotten cut. Good thing I did. The forestation here is next to infinite. Even small towns have wilderness areas in them where it is simply too steep to build -- these areas are of course covered in trees. Squirrels run across the power and phone lines. Occasionally, a squirrel will short-out a telephone pole transformer = explosion, dead transformer, charcoal squirrel. A neighbor had groundhogs living borrowing under his tool shed. Wasn't long before we had these whistle-pigs digging under our back workshop.


Love this short axe! Use it all the time.

 

Something to which most folk give zero thought is that one boo-boo can end up causing numerous HUGE problems.

"Baltimore Bridge Collapse and Port Closure Send Companies Scrambling to Reroute Cargo"

https://www.breitbart.com/news/balt...e-send-companies-scrambling-to-reroute-cargo/

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The stunning collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge is diverting shipping and trucking around one of the busiest ports on America’s East Coast, creating delays and raising costs in the latest disruption to global supply chains.

After the container ship Dali hit the bridge and brought it down early Tuesday, ship traffic entering and leaving the Port of Baltimore was suspended indefinitely. That will require rerouting vessels or their cargo to other ports, potentially causing congestion and delays for importers, said Judah Levine, head of research for the global freight booking platform Freightos.

“People right now are figuring out where are they going and what are their options,’’ Ami Daniel, CEO of the maritime intelligence company Windward in Tel Aviv, Israel, said.

“Aside from the obvious tragedy, this incident will have significant and long-lasting impacts on the region,” American Trucking Associations spokesperson Jessica Gail said, calling Key Bridge and Baltimore’s port “critical components” of the nation’s infrastructure.

Gail noted that 1.3 million trucks cross the bridge every year — 3,600 a day. Trucks that carry hazardous materials will now have to make 30 miles of detours around Baltimore because they are prohibited from using the city’s tunnels, she said, adding to delays and increasing fuel costs.

The accident comes as global shipping has largely adjusted to disruptions from Houthi rebel attacks on vessels in the Red Sea. The attacks, which started amid the Israel-Hamas war, have forced ships to take the longer route around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa and required more ships to sail more often.

The diversions have pushed freight rates from Asia to the U.S. to roughly double what they were before the war, though they prices recently declined some to $5,284 per 40-foot container, Levine at Freightos said.

Baltimore’s port has become increasingly important to U.S. retailers and manufacturers seeking to diversify their supply networks and bring goods closer to customers, said Jonathan Gold, vice president of supply chain and customs policy at the National Retail Federation.

Americans should expect shortages, said Ryan Petersen, CEO of the supply chain management company Flexport. He said the accident would have significant repercussions for ocean container shipping and East Coast trucking logistics.

“It’s not just the port of Baltimore that’s going to be impacted,” he said.

Petersen said the attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea already forced traffic away from the Suez Canal and increased congestion in the Panama Canal. With U.S. importers increasingly shifting to West Coast ports that in turn may experience their own backups, “you get this vicious feedback loop,” he said.

The use of trucks as an alternative to shipping goods will also cause traffic backups on U.S. thoroughfares, Petersen predicted. “The East Coast I-95 corridor is going to be a real disaster,” he said.

The bridge collapse nevertheless is likely to have an outsize impact on the regional economy around Baltimore and on businesses that rely on shipments of steel and cars that come through the port.

In the Baltimore area, “if you’re in the construction business and you haven’t piled up enough steel because of (high) interest rates, then there’s a good chance you’re going to run out of steel,’’ Windward’s Daniel said. “If you’re in the shipbuilding or construction business, it can slow down your project.’’

The Port of Baltimore is one of the largest vehicle handling ports in the U.S., and a lengthy closure could disrupt the supply of new vehicles. In 2022, Baltimore ranked No. 1 with more than 750,000 vehicles going through the port, 70% of them imports, according to the publication Automotive Logistics.

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Something most media are not reporting on the ship ramming the bridge , It was a shipping company that hired the ship's crew because they were homos , not based on if they knew how to do their job . --- This same type of cluster f---- can be expected if a real war breaks out and N.A.T,O. sends a bunch of homos to the battle field .

 

On the bridge fiasco . Around 20,000 vehicles traveled across it daily . It will take years to rebuild . This separated many people that depended on it to reach their work place . Then there is the big rig trucks bringing in supplies that will now either not deliver or go a much longer route . --- The river channel is now blocked , so transport is disrupted , likely for months . --- Reportedly though I will not confirm this has shut down the 9th. largest port in the world . Frankly I am very skeptical on the Maryland port as being the 9th. largest in the world . -- This resulting food and other supplies being forecast to be severely diminished in the Maryland area could get interesting from a prepper's perspect6ive . --- Remember my posting somewhere a few weeks ago about our enemy's target list included " all " bridges crossing the Mississippi River . This one bridge will give a small insight as to what we can expect if our enemies do indeed take out all the Mississippi River bridges . --- Take notice the news media fast parroting the Boat Captain' s excuse that the boat lost power . They took it without question , before an investigation could be done . My son occasionally piolets boats on the Mississippi river . He is on the river or at least some river right now . He has told me of the delicate touch and skill level it takes to take a large boat down stream . It is much more difficult than taking it upstream . Actually my son doesn't even try to take a boat downstream through bridges but lets a real boat captain do so .

 

I discussed this incident with a friend yesterday who happens to be one of the UKs leading authorities on shipping. He has, of course, watched the film clip over and over. He showed me the point where they lost control, it is subtle but when pointed one can see it. Also they had two pilots on board, one for the river and one for the estuary.

 

The downed bridge story is getting bizarre. The cargo ship without power got is power back on just in time to make a course correction to direct it into the pier. Some see smaller explosions at critical points down from central pier -- these being ones to further the damage / take out longer length of entirety. A CIA crane from cold war secret (at the time) has been brought in to repair the bridge.



"Baltimore bridge collapse: Powerful crane linked to CIA secret Cold War mission arrives to clean up debris"

https://www.foxbangor.com/news/nati...cle_8d1d8faa-fd5c-5007-901f-ec60a720cd00.html

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The thot plickens!

"Baltimore Bridge Collapse: Container Ship 'Potentially Atop High-Pressure Underwater Gas Line' "

https://www.zerohedge.com/commoditi...potentially-atop-high-pressure-underwater-gas

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The federal government authorized $60 million for salvage efforts for the 1.6-mile-long Francis Scott Key Bridge at the Port of Baltimore, which collapsed on Tuesday after being struck by a large container ship. A massive CIA-linked floating crane has arrived in Baltimore, Maryland, along with other cranes, and it will soon begin clearing the mangled bridge from the shipping channel, which has paralyzed the entire port.

The salvage operation may not begin as seamlessly as government officials hoped. As Captain John Konrad, CEO of gCaptain, a website specializing in tracking the shipping industry, states, the 984-foot Singapore-flagged container ship Dali is apparently "sitting atop a high-pressure underwater gas line."

"Sources at ICS reports ship salvage effort will likely be delayed while line is surveyed and additional risk can be assessed," Konrad wrote on social media platform X.

BREAKING: MV DALI IS POTENTIALLY SITTING ATOP HIGH PRESSURE UNDERWATER GAS LINE

Source at ICS reports ship salvage effort will likely be delayed while line is surveyed and additional risk can be assessed
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) March 30, 2024

He said, "The weight of steel/concrete pinning down bow of the vessel is estimated to be 3-4 thousand tons."

weight of steel/concrete pinning down bow of the vessel is estimated to be 3-4 thousand tons
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) March 30, 2024

Konrad reported this late Friday night. He said this news will soon be released on the "state of Maryland's website."

No. That’s why is breaking news

But was told it will be posted to the state of Maryland’s website
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) March 30, 2024

The National Pipeline Mapping System database shows Konrad is correct about an underwater natural gas pipeline under the bridge.

Next week, President Biden will travel to the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Biden has been criticized for not visiting disaster sites in a timely fashion, including the toxic train disaster in East Palestine, Ohio.



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"Drug shortages hit record high, pharmacists warn"

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/drug-...high-hundreds-short-supply/story?id=109160863

"There are at least 323 active shortages, according to a pharmacy trade group.

" 'All drug classes are vulnerable to shortage,' Dr. Paul Abramowitz, CEO of ASHP, said in a statement. 'Some of the most worrying shortages involve generic sterile injectable medications, including cancer chemotherapy drugs and emergency medications stored in hospital crash carts and procedural areas.'

"Last year, the American Cancer Society issued a warning that chemotherapy drugs had returned to the list of the top-five drug classes affected by shortages and warned this could have a devastating effect on patients.

"Some hospitals and clinics reported being completely out of the medications. Doctors have been forced to either ration cancer drugs or triage which patients receive the drugs first.

"At a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee earlier this year, expert witnesses -- practitioners, researchers and pharmaceutical company executives -- said drug shortages can hurt patients financially because they may turn to alternate products that can cost more."

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"Spanberger Leads Bipartisan Effort to Address Critical Medication Shortages, Reduce American Reliance on China"

https://spanberger.house.gov/posts/...n-shortages-reduce-american-reliance-on-china

"Nearly 80 Percent of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Facilities Are Currently Located Outside of the United States

"The 'RAPID Reserve Act' Would Incentivize American-Based Manufacturers to Increase Reserves of Critical Pharmaceutical Ingredients

"WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Representatives Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07), Angie Craig (D-MN-02), and Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ-02) yesterday introduced bipartisan legislation to strengthen domestic medication supply chains and reduce the United States’ reliance on China for critical medications.

"Currently, nearly 80 percent of the manufacturing facilities that produce critical pharmaceutical ingredients are located outside the United States. The bipartisan RAPID Reserve Act would encourage the domestic production of critical medications and incentivize American-based manufacturers to increase their reserves of these medications to prepare for future public health threats and supply chain challenges."