re: Eight damn ships at fairwell bouy off mobile

Do you understand how the shipping industry works ? There are hundreds of workers whose labor is required to make things flow smoothly and efficiently. Deckhands, tugboat operators, mates, captains, crane operators, safety personnel, dispatchers, weigh scale workers, container lift operators, truck drivers, train conductors, railyard laborers, and so on.

Let's just say it takes 2-3 days for a cargo ship to unload 8,000 containers, and that's with all hands-on deck. What if 10% of the laborers fail a drug screen, decide to take a job somewhere else, contracts covid, are staying at home to get that FREE government hand-out money, get hurt at work and waiting for that $1M settlement / retirement money ? With any shortage of labor, it will increase the delay of moving containers off the yard which increases the ship unloading backlog.

8 cargo ships in Mobile Bay is nothing. Last September there were 60+ vessels waiting in the Pacific to be unloaded. As long as America continues to rely on foreign labor & imports, and workers not having a work ethic like their grandparents, this problem will only get worse.

Every container pictured below needs a truck driver to deliver it to it's final destination.