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For the week ending May 3, the number of freight vessels leaving China and headed to the Southern California ports, the main U.S. ports receiving Chinese freight and other Asian trade, is down 29% week-over-week, according to Port Optimizer, a tracking system for ships. Year-over-year, the data shows a 44% drop in vessels scheduled to arrive the week of May 4-May 10.

This data is updated on a daily basis based on the vessel manifests declaring the port destination. These vessels are either scheduled to leave Asia or are already on the water and headed to these ports.

Twelve vessels are scheduled to come in this week, down from 22 the week of April 20. Measured in shipping containers, a total of 62,568 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) are arriving the week of May 4-May 10, versus 120,608 TEUs as recently as the week of April 20-April 26.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/busiest-us-ports-see-big-drop-in-chinese-freight-vessel-traffic.html

https://volumes.portoptimizer.com

Not just the groceries, but prescription and OTC medicines, critical medical supplies.
Let's hope the tariff issues are resolved before that idiot kills more people.

with my response, the felon will add more dead Americans to his Covid count.

How much more or how many more???

I'm going to have to ration...

We have an insane man at the helm in D.C.

We're marching to recession...maybe depression.

Maybe he was also referring to inflicting pain.

I was in charge of supplies for a large veterinary practice during Covid and I still have that responsibility. That is going to pale in comparison to this.

I only hope karma gives Trusk and associates the need for general surgery over the next few months. For one thing, the sodalime necessary for a gas anesthesia machine to work is all manufactured in China. No anesthesia, no problem, right? All syringes. Sterile and non-sterile gloves, latex and nitrile, ditto.

I'm trying to stock up without having much permission to do so. And as prices rise, I suspect strongly my budget will not rise accordingly.

But as long as he gets to strut around and pretend he's a stable genius. No wonder Zelinsky was the only one to be greeted with applause at the Pope's funeral - he's the new leader of the free world. Not Trump.

just how much we depend on China for.
Buckle up and hold on tight.

The Port of LA is the nation’s largest port and is suffering a substantial drop in cargo vessels.

Remove any personal information and tracking on URLs (anything past the first ? ).

Don't give out any more information about yourself that you feel comfortable sharing on a neighborhood bulletin board. It will be scraped and fed into their huge DB.

For example, don't give any close physical address - use a neighborhood or region. Don't specify your actual age. Anything that can narrow their search, they will use.

Unfortunately, for posters who like to use photos and who are also, let's say politically active, be careful. The technology is good enough to tell exactly where you were when you took that photograph.

And, as far as I know, there are no laws/rules that prohibit this. Of course, in our new wild-west lawless world, WTF about those stupid laws?

What is happening at our level is just pure web scraping. Anyone can do it. I do it. Google and everyone else does it. So does the US government (and every other one that cares.)

DU is not paywalled and has no enforceable constraints on who is spidering the content.

Facebuck, NYT, etc. put up paywalls which "inhibit" access but you only need to look at the plethora of archival sites to realize these walls are easily breached.

Yes, looking at internet traffic at the ISP level (ATT, Verizon, etc.) may be constrained by the "laws" but those laws are only for normies.

Thanks for this conversation!

... but the infinitely worse fact that no one wants to say out loud, is that he is a fucking traitor. He's been in Putin's pocket from Day One, but even those who oppose him are too chickenshit to do anything about it.
Republicans have slit their own throats, all the while thinking that they'll rule over the ashes of whatever is left. C'mon, boys and girls; do you really think that Putin is going to let the kind of self-serving idiots that voted for, and continue to support, this malevolent monster, rule over ANYTHING? Get real. You're done.
Vladimir has his own worries, a great many of which are potentially fatal. You can bet that he avoids walking near open windows. But he's getting his lifelong wish: Bringing America to its knees, with a little help from his buddies, the Republicans, may they all roast in Hell.
He'll have to be dealt with, but the GOP can NEVER be forgiven for their obscene treachery. Not ever.

among about 40% of politically illiterate voters as a mandate to go along with it." Nothing Trump does makes any sense. He's fucking insane and Republicans know it, yet they go along with his insanity and allow him to destroy the country. I just don't get it.

America is not "first" other than as a target to destroy to please his boss, pootin.

Nancy knew. Remember "All roads lead to russia with *rump"?

I use on a regular basis that it turns out are all imported. It's a wide variety of things. The origin of some surprised me. I won't be shopping for a long while after that. I hope that I can conserve and can make things last. I'm certainly going to try.

Most folks don't have a clue what's about to happen. I feel bad for the small businesses that are going to suffer if not completely disappear. The shopping addicts need to buckle up.

We're all going to go through some things, as the saying goes.

Of course, many already unfortunate people (like the homeless, hungry, single women HOH and children) are already and always suffering.

We are going to see huge tests on our humanity. If you are able, please consider donating to your local food pantry or start a Free Store* in your neighborhood.

You can easily make a free sign and share things that you no longer need with anyone.

I've been setting things out like that at the road that runs in front of my house for years. Once, I watched a petite senior woman wrestling to get a space heater in her car until I went out and helped her. Who knows, you might meet neighbors and make friends? If you dare.

Thanks so much for sharing this, erronis.

❤️pants

*Free Store information:

●How to start a free store in your community
https://www.shareable.net/how-to-start-a-free-store-in-your-community/
●"...freestanding alt-markets which reclaimed public space and offered solace & resources to neighborhoods..."
https://thefreestoreproject.com/

Retailers, importers, wholesalers, distributors will be uncertain and reluctant about putting up more money to import when demand is uncertain, and satiated in the short term. Perhaps by fall the most critical goods will be reordered. But much longer than that for slow-moving merchandise, or expensive merchandise.

I haven't seen data on what the tariff rate currently in effect is by country nor the dollar volume by country. Also, what are the many tariff exceptions? Trump just isn't making the data available where reliable estimates can be had. Even with China and its 134% tariff, there are exceptions.

But there is no question, the China tariffs by themselves will cause severe supply chain issues. Some effects will be felt even though there has been a 90-day delay in the tariffs. For instance, Subaru, a Japanese company, makes cars that it ships to Canada that are made in Indiana. They have announced that they will be shipping cars made in Japan to Canada to bypass the tariff. They will continue to make cars in Indiana for sale in America, but cut out production of cars to be shipped from America to other countries, where they face tariffs. Will other car makers follow this model? I would expect so, meaning the tariffs are backfiring. So much for hairbrained ideas.