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Eight damn ships at fairwell bouy off mobile
Posted on 7/25/22 at 5:10 pm
Posted on 7/25/22 at 5:10 pm
I know the damn bouy is still missing, probably because assholes at NOAA found out a lot of people caught fish off it.
i counted 8 ships lined up yesterday, by and could have been a few more. That’s by far the most I have ever seen. I have never seen that many. What’s going on here?
i counted 8 ships lined up yesterday, by and could have been a few more. That’s by far the most I have ever seen. I have never seen that many. What’s going on here?
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Posted on 7/25/22 at 6:58 pm to TutHillTiger
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.
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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.
Posted on 7/25/22 at 9:15 pm to Got Blaze
Well, the container in the last picture needs more than a driver
Posted on 7/25/22 at 11:04 pm to TutHillTiger
I work for an import lumber company in Mobile. We get our lumber in and unloaded here and New Orleans much quicker than Houston or the east and west coast. Occasionally cargo ships get backed up but normally Mobile gets you in and out pretty quick.
Customs causes us headaches occasionally when we have containers of CITES II species in our cans. I cut an $18,000 demurrage check last week because of the United States Customs clearing our lumber off the docks.
Customs causes us headaches occasionally when we have containers of CITES II species in our cans. I cut an $18,000 demurrage check last week because of the United States Customs clearing our lumber off the docks.
Posted on 7/25/22 at 11:42 pm to Earthquake 88
Thanks Earthquake, we probably know the sand people.
First of all, I know all about problems in California, and how docks works, we ain’t California Which was my point. One of the big stevedore company owners son player soccer with my son. They pay good money and don’t have labor issues, during covid there was rarely one that one or two probably 2-4 is normal.
Covid is exploding here maybe that’s it or something, but ships get unloaded fast here bitch, they don’t frick around. Maybe some jack leg inspector or some thing is being a dick. Ships dint wait around for weeks/months to unload. (it would be great for fishing as ling, kings etc stack under them in Summer but doesn’t happen )
First of all, I know all about problems in California, and how docks works, we ain’t California Which was my point. One of the big stevedore company owners son player soccer with my son. They pay good money and don’t have labor issues, during covid there was rarely one that one or two probably 2-4 is normal.
Covid is exploding here maybe that’s it or something, but ships get unloaded fast here bitch, they don’t frick around. Maybe some jack leg inspector or some thing is being a dick. Ships dint wait around for weeks/months to unload. (it would be great for fishing as ling, kings etc stack under them in Summer but doesn’t happen )
This post was edited on 7/25/22 at 11:47 pm
Posted on 7/26/22 at 6:10 am to Earthquake 88
Earthquake — how do y’all unload off the boat?Does the lumber come in containers or bundles?
Posted on 7/26/22 at 9:32 am to Jrg543
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Earthquake — how do y’all unload off the boat?Does the lumber come in containers or bundles?
Everything we receive is in containers. We unload them at our Brookley Field warehouse or our plant in Stockton. It’s a pain in the arse to unload those things because some of that lumber is over 20’ at times.
Posted on 7/26/22 at 9:40 am to TutHillTiger
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Maybe some jack leg inspector or some thing is being a dick. Ships dint wait around for weeks/months to unload. He
I don’t know. All of our lumber coming into Mobile has been on time this month. What’s killing my guys is the rain. That and lightning. Seems like every other hour it rains. At the plant our unloading docks are outdoors. This kind of lumber is kiln dried and can’t get wet so we are having to wait for the rain to clear out before we take the product out. Our warehouse in Brookley Field is quick to unload the containers because the docks back up to the warehouse. No unloading in the rain. I haven’t drove across the bay bridge in a week or two so if ships are backed up I’m not aware of it.
Posted on 7/26/22 at 10:21 am to Got Blaze
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are staying at home to get that FREE government hand-out money,
I don't mean to derail this thread, I just wanna know how to get some of this.
Posted on 7/26/22 at 4:00 pm to Earthquake 88
Thanks for the info. I work for a material handling company in the area, but cover Baldwin county to PCB. Always interesting to see how people move products.
This post was edited on 7/26/22 at 4:17 pm
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