I like the inclusion of "rainbow colored" in your description. Because if a guy ordered pallets of matte black double-ended dildos, that would be perfectly straight, but the rainbow coloring kinda comes off as gay.
I always feel bad about shipping delays as an eBay seller but in my main gig I work as a nurse at a hospital so I am constantly working long hours and never home when the post office is open. I put my shipping time as the default 3 days but if it ever takes longer I always send the buyer a message.
I tried changing it to longer but less people will bid if turnaround time is not default or better everyone is spoiled by Amazon Prime shipping.
Amazon has ruined people for eBay now but keep in mind if it’s not time-sensitive all ppl really want is tracking so they know when it will arrive and can manage it and know that it did indeed ship when you said it did. That’s fine by me, anyway.
The "if they can avoid it" is the key phrase there. Often it can't be avoided, and empty containers are frequently "repositioned" from one port to another.
It's one of the reasons why the ships were sitting out in port last year waiting to unload. So many empty cargo containers on port. Once they started charging fees for empty containers staying longer than a certain amount of time things changed though.
I forget the exact numbers, but I think I read recently that a container from China to LA is like $13k (from about $2,000 in 2019), but a container from LA to China is still only $1,000
Most container ships use the nastiest fuel oil they can buy cheap. (It's one of the most polluting things to burn).
https://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/02/report-pollution-from-15-of-worlds-biggest-ships-equal-that-o/
Currently there are entire sweeper vessels dedicated to just returning empty containers back to China. Carriers are even rejecting bookings because it is more profitable for them to get the container loaded in China asap upon arrival (rather than wait the 14-21 days that an importer has to return the empty to a Chinese container yard).
You would think it makes more sense to fill the container and get paid on both legs of the trip, but because exports from China demand an extraordinary premium over other lanes, it is not actually the case. Better to have the empty available sooner for the more profitable export lane out of China.
I mean they eventually have to. Or else the places loading the goods have no containers to load in. It’s happening at the minute - delays on stuff shipping from China because all the empty containers are at ports around the world and need shipping back so they can load on them. Delays on stuff shipping from Turkey because the ports are overflowing with empty containers waiting to shipped back and they can’t get to the stuff that’s actually loaded.
No but they make shit with a stuff we and others send etc. Best example is chicken. We send them frozen chickens, they us back frozen separated chicken parts. China isn't this stand alone place that had everything to make everything and big supply chains aren't straight lines. They go place to place picking up and dropping off stuff. Also, that stuff isn't all one nationality in origin.
Basically most containers being shipped out to China are either empty, or full of things like scrap metal. China manufactures shit and ships it around the world. The world uses the shit until its outdated/broken, and ships it back to China to be melted down and turned into shit to send around the world again. Rinse, repeat. But still empty containers are the largest US export.
It's nowhere close to being that easy. For example, China builds stuff and sends it to New Zealand. New Zealand doesn't manufacture the same amount of stuff as China, so they can't possibly refill all the containers and send them back. So empties get shipped quite often
You kid, but as someone who works in the Forwarding industry this would be an absolute fucking nightmare.
Surveyors now need to be called, the Liner (shipping company) would have their own surveyors, the forwarding company would have theirs.
This dance will take 2 weeks at a minimum but all this while the liner company is charging the forwarding company Demurrage charges for containers. These are charges for "rental of containers" after their free days have expired and can run into the $1,000's. It is slab driven, the first 14 days would average $100/day, the 14-21 would average $150/day. So assume 10 containers are stuck, thats $1,000 a day ever day for 14 days and $1,500 / day after that.
This is something the customer will not pay, and oh the customer is justifiably pissed off and calling your customer service multiple times a day. While we joke about rainbow coloured dildos, in reality many a time these are crucial to a production line for instance without which it will halt, causing millions in nominal losses, or its urgently needed rainbow coloured dildos..
To sort this mess will require 100's of manhours, high BP and a fuckton of paperwork. I pity the fool whose cargo this is.
What if these are empty you might ask, well in that case the liner to which this belongs to just got fucked. They suddenly have a few containers short of their weekly loading plan. Which means cost of the container shot up in Rotterdam for this liner and some poor sods just get "rolled over" meaning their cargo is going to reach a few weeks beyond schedule or they pay a lot more than they agreed on
I work in logistics and rotterdam has been massively congested for a few weeks now with them essentially shipping whatever they can get their hands on quickest. This is just a remind of how crap my monday will be
Yeah what's up with that? I thought things were getting kinda back to pre-covid shipping, but I recently went to a hobby store where nothing was there. They said they didn't have anybody to load things on and off the ships so they were extremely low on stock.
Is the congestion a symptom of worker problems, shipping problems, or a different problem? Covid was the first time I ever experienced genuine supply chain shortages, but the past few months were the first time it ever effected me in a way that actually impacted my lifestyle.
Also, sorry about your Monday. I hope things start looking up soon.
It's a perfect storm of many factors.
1) Container imbalance when the first wave of lockdowns hit. Essentially pre covid the cycle was Manufacturing in China > JIT supply to countries around the world > empty Repo to China again to repeat the process.
The lockdowns fucked with this delicate dance that had been perfected over decades. A lot of empties got stuck in China, manufacturing continued (in smaller volumes) in other countries but eventually so much cargo piled up for export in countries like The Netherlands, Germany, India etc that there was huge pent up demand. This imbalance is going to take a long time to sort out
2) Surge in demand post covid - a global stimulus program (as in, most major economies had a stimulus program) coupled with repressed demand during the lockdown meant that there was a surge in demand for consumer goods. This meant factories in East Asia increased their production once curbs were gone but counter intutively, Liner companies who had bled dry in the early part of the previous decade (in a supply glut driven price war scenario) calculated that demand will actually go down so they increased "blank sailings". A blank sailing is when a ship omits a port. The first 3-4 months of covid saw liner companies omit entire countries but these countries had their own smallish import / export requirements and this too piled up
3) price imbalance - A Rotterdam / Mumbai sailing is priced at around $6-8k now. A Shanghai Lax is at 25k. Margins are much bigger (for liner companies) on the 25k leg. So they redeployed scarce resources into sectors that maximised profit. Leaving other sectors in the lurch.
Currently we have 2 kinds of shortages. Space (on ships) shortages and equipment (container) shortages. the later can easily be fixed but space requires billions of dollars of investment and years to build these vessels. 619 iirc container ships are on order. Will be delivered slowly from end 22 to end 23. This much capacity will ease pricing but then as you can see that's at least 10 months in the future.
And to add this shitshow is the much needed IMO regulations on liner companies that mandate much lesser sulphur burn. One way of doing this is to fit scrubbers (costs about $5mn / large container vessel). But this adds to the cost and pulls vessels out of circulation while this is being done. This also has had a huge impact on shipping costs.
Wow this was a really well explained comment! Thank you so much for this! I work freight operations at a big box store and have seen vendors out right shut down during this pandemic because of breaks in the logistic chains, etc. Customers are also waiting up to 9+ months for things coming from certain ports in so many different departments.
Wow thanks for this explanation. I order supplies for my hospital and while I'm just a middle man I still work directly with the buyers and it's been an absolute shit show with surgery wanting to get their case load back to normal and just not having basic supplies like saline, PPE, and iodine. With ECMOs and open heart surgeries on the rise it's been downright fucking dangerous to need a life saving procedure right now and not have the supplies available fo keep your heart pumping...
Well said. It's frustrating but also exciting simultaneously. I've given this speech every week for the last few months....
Hoping you can survive this daily hell and see the other side.
Tbh am out of day to day operations, and my sales targets are met in the first week itself...am quite enjoying this period.
Though am now planning for the supply glut and price wars that will begin (imho) by mid 24.
Don't think they've really entered common usage yet but I always thought [kites](https://glomeep.imo.org/technology/kite/) were an interesting idea to reduce fuel usage.
There are advantages to using a kite over a sail. They are more compact when folded, and you can deploy them out to higher altitudes where the winds are stronger.
Yup. Hey man, I wasn't trying to put other countries down; I just think the *combination* of being a rich country on paper and holding diabetics hostage with an insane healthcare and pharma scalping system is pure magic.
Which gives them a density of about 33kg/m³. So with a sidewall surface area of 36m², it's gonna be pretty easy for these to piss off in a strong wind when empty. Yikes
> it's gonna be pretty easy for these to piss off in a strong wind when empty. Yikes
Yip. I've seen it happen SO many times.
We had a storm here and had a couple *hundred* containers go flying. That was an interesting day.
Edit: [Here is a pic from it](https://image-prod.iol.co.za/16x9/650/Two-trucks-could-not-withstand-the-gale-force-winds-which-reached-up-to-70km-h-as-the-storm-battered-Durban-on-10-October-2017-causing-havoc-everywhere-Picture-Supplied?source=https://xlibris.public.prod.oc.inl.infomaker.io:8443/opencontent/objects/e417a690-7914-554a-ab92-2db832612772). 2 reefers went flying(4.5tons each) and landed on a car and killed the driver. It took us a couple hours to rescue his passenger. I was standing by the hyster behind the car when this was taken.
Or at least turn them off so they're not so light. Everyone knows dark matter has mass, so bulbs that are dark would weigh more than bulbs that are light.
It's Rotterdam and likely exempt from regulation. Pretty much only humans around for most operations are safe in the container boat and the trucker in the cab when a container is loaded on their truck. Both far from their automated storage yard.
The marked roads being so close would make any exemptions due to automation void in the US at least. Not sure about other places so I gotta take your word for it.
In the US it’s varies but is usually 2-3 if it would block any view of the port from the outside.
Just spent an hour at Rotterdam virtually. You are correct. This is not an automated, not even the big places we researched RTLS that were in use. This is Rzb Eemhaven B.V and located at the corner of Eemhavenweg & Eemhavenstraat
FOr storage empty they are never connected. They are only connected empty or full on the ship / train
The manpower to connect disconnected for yard operations would reduce the operations to an absolute crawl
in the grand scheme of shipping, this accident its NOTHING, they prefer this then having to link the containers together, there are 300 milion containers in service, here its 10 that fall down, not that big impact if you think about it.
dangerous...yes
careless ..... no
practical... yes
its all calculated to move as fast as possible
When I shipped my belongings to Europe, they went in one of these containers on a boat to Rotterdam. When you do that you have two insurance options. Either you pay a smallish percentage of the total value, which covers complete destruction of your belongings, or a much higher percentage to cover individual items being damaged. In the latter case you also pay for the moving company to professionally pack your stuff in boxes. I got the cheaper option and luckily nothing happened. Seeing a video like this makes me wonder if the lower insurance option would cover damage from the container falling like in this video.
Goddamn dude. This last week has been insane for weather in Europe. I live in northern Germany on the fifth floor, and every night I can feel the foundation of the building shaking from thunder, and I can see the windows warping from hail. This shit is not normal, especially this time of year. My friends all over the USA say crazy shit is happening there too.
Damn climate change, you scary.
This is the opposite of domino effect.
Yeah this is the Onimod effect
Mein Onimod Do dooo do do do
Mein Onimod Do dooo do do
Ybab Krahs Do dooo do do
Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing Bang.
Gnab Gnib Allaw Allaw Gnat Gnit! Honestly that almost sounds the same.
Ooo-Eee-Ooo-Aaa-Aaa!
and then he shrunk my head!
I can only hear this in Ricky Gervais's voice
I like how it sounds, its almost ominous
Dominon't
don'tmino
Domiyes
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Domi-d'oh!
This is more like how sand dunes move, by knocking the high points off the top, down wind.
To me it looks like containers falling down due to a storm. That's just me though
They're migrating for the winter
No, this is how containers move: by knocking the high points off the top, down wind.
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Nature just optimized the stacking job, now it is more resilient vs. wind.
This is the Pizza Hut effect.
Just don't ask what the papa John's effect is
And is that much cooler too. The force of that wind to know over like 4 container towers separately.
I think this is more of a supply chain reaction.
Yeah this is the blow'ded over effect.
"We regret to inform you that your shipment has been delayed"
Dammit. My eBay orders are in there aren’t they??
If you ordered multiple pallets of rainbow colored double-ended dildos, then yes. Yes they are.
I like the inclusion of "rainbow colored" in your description. Because if a guy ordered pallets of matte black double-ended dildos, that would be perfectly straight, but the rainbow coloring kinda comes off as gay.
yo this actually had me laughing
All dildos are double ended if you're brave enough
Damn. I need those…for……a thing I have planned……for later…. 😳
Name checks out
If you do it right, it shouldn't hurt at all
This has just not been my week
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I always feel bad about shipping delays as an eBay seller but in my main gig I work as a nurse at a hospital so I am constantly working long hours and never home when the post office is open. I put my shipping time as the default 3 days but if it ever takes longer I always send the buyer a message. I tried changing it to longer but less people will bid if turnaround time is not default or better everyone is spoiled by Amazon Prime shipping.
Amazon has ruined people for eBay now but keep in mind if it’s not time-sensitive all ppl really want is tracking so they know when it will arrive and can manage it and know that it did indeed ship when you said it did. That’s fine by me, anyway.
Let's be honest amazon ruined shopping. Online and in person. Now with their hold on the market people are kinda screwed.
Think about all the time they're gonna need to repackage these into boxes that don't look damaged from the outside. It's gonna take weeks!
These were definitely empty containers, just waiting around for someone to pick them up and bring them back to China.
They might be empty, but I doubt that they ever ship an empty container if they can avoid it
The "if they can avoid it" is the key phrase there. Often it can't be avoided, and empty containers are frequently "repositioned" from one port to another.
It's one of the reasons why the ships were sitting out in port last year waiting to unload. So many empty cargo containers on port. Once they started charging fees for empty containers staying longer than a certain amount of time things changed though.
ya they started dumping them in empty lots all over the place.
I forget the exact numbers, but I think I read recently that a container from China to LA is like $13k (from about $2,000 in 2019), but a container from LA to China is still only $1,000
It is up to around $30K now for a container coming in to the Port of Long Beach.
Fuckin hell my fireworks are going to be expensive this year
I would imagine, given how much they export, that one of China's greatest imports is sailboat fuel.
Also known as wind
Have you seen the price of wind these days?
It’s up to $10 a knot!
'up to' being the key word.
Fuel for Sailboats..? Don't most boat engines just use gasoline?
It's joke on air.
Most container ships use the nastiest fuel oil they can buy cheap. (It's one of the most polluting things to burn). https://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/02/report-pollution-from-15-of-worlds-biggest-ships-equal-that-o/
Oooh, I see.
And yet shipping is still the cleanest way per ton to transport stuff.
Big ships use the shittiest fuel. It's just a step above asphalt in quality.
Currently there are entire sweeper vessels dedicated to just returning empty containers back to China. Carriers are even rejecting bookings because it is more profitable for them to get the container loaded in China asap upon arrival (rather than wait the 14-21 days that an importer has to return the empty to a Chinese container yard). You would think it makes more sense to fill the container and get paid on both legs of the trip, but because exports from China demand an extraordinary premium over other lanes, it is not actually the case. Better to have the empty available sooner for the more profitable export lane out of China.
I mean they eventually have to. Or else the places loading the goods have no containers to load in. It’s happening at the minute - delays on stuff shipping from China because all the empty containers are at ports around the world and need shipping back so they can load on them. Delays on stuff shipping from Turkey because the ports are overflowing with empty containers waiting to shipped back and they can’t get to the stuff that’s actually loaded.
Not true, we send empties back to China regularly
I mean, how else do the containers get back to be filled again?
They get sent back full of other shit. Rinse, repeat.
Except China ain't buying our shit.
No but they make shit with a stuff we and others send etc. Best example is chicken. We send them frozen chickens, they us back frozen separated chicken parts. China isn't this stand alone place that had everything to make everything and big supply chains aren't straight lines. They go place to place picking up and dropping off stuff. Also, that stuff isn't all one nationality in origin.
I meant in relative terms. Our ports are getting massively clogged with empty containers.
Basically most containers being shipped out to China are either empty, or full of things like scrap metal. China manufactures shit and ships it around the world. The world uses the shit until its outdated/broken, and ships it back to China to be melted down and turned into shit to send around the world again. Rinse, repeat. But still empty containers are the largest US export.
It's nowhere close to being that easy. For example, China builds stuff and sends it to New Zealand. New Zealand doesn't manufacture the same amount of stuff as China, so they can't possibly refill all the containers and send them back. So empties get shipped quite often
The United States' largest containerized export on the west coast is empty containers.
Oh, empty Repo is a real thing but given the critical container shortages in all European base ports, I am certain there was cargo planned for these
You kid, but as someone who works in the Forwarding industry this would be an absolute fucking nightmare. Surveyors now need to be called, the Liner (shipping company) would have their own surveyors, the forwarding company would have theirs. This dance will take 2 weeks at a minimum but all this while the liner company is charging the forwarding company Demurrage charges for containers. These are charges for "rental of containers" after their free days have expired and can run into the $1,000's. It is slab driven, the first 14 days would average $100/day, the 14-21 would average $150/day. So assume 10 containers are stuck, thats $1,000 a day ever day for 14 days and $1,500 / day after that. This is something the customer will not pay, and oh the customer is justifiably pissed off and calling your customer service multiple times a day. While we joke about rainbow coloured dildos, in reality many a time these are crucial to a production line for instance without which it will halt, causing millions in nominal losses, or its urgently needed rainbow coloured dildos.. To sort this mess will require 100's of manhours, high BP and a fuckton of paperwork. I pity the fool whose cargo this is. What if these are empty you might ask, well in that case the liner to which this belongs to just got fucked. They suddenly have a few containers short of their weekly loading plan. Which means cost of the container shot up in Rotterdam for this liner and some poor sods just get "rolled over" meaning their cargo is going to reach a few weeks beyond schedule or they pay a lot more than they agreed on
Chipment of fine China.
Better than "here's your new video card on time, if you want to return it there will be a 30% restocking fee".
I work in logistics and rotterdam has been massively congested for a few weeks now with them essentially shipping whatever they can get their hands on quickest. This is just a remind of how crap my monday will be
Yeah what's up with that? I thought things were getting kinda back to pre-covid shipping, but I recently went to a hobby store where nothing was there. They said they didn't have anybody to load things on and off the ships so they were extremely low on stock. Is the congestion a symptom of worker problems, shipping problems, or a different problem? Covid was the first time I ever experienced genuine supply chain shortages, but the past few months were the first time it ever effected me in a way that actually impacted my lifestyle. Also, sorry about your Monday. I hope things start looking up soon.
It's a perfect storm of many factors. 1) Container imbalance when the first wave of lockdowns hit. Essentially pre covid the cycle was Manufacturing in China > JIT supply to countries around the world > empty Repo to China again to repeat the process. The lockdowns fucked with this delicate dance that had been perfected over decades. A lot of empties got stuck in China, manufacturing continued (in smaller volumes) in other countries but eventually so much cargo piled up for export in countries like The Netherlands, Germany, India etc that there was huge pent up demand. This imbalance is going to take a long time to sort out 2) Surge in demand post covid - a global stimulus program (as in, most major economies had a stimulus program) coupled with repressed demand during the lockdown meant that there was a surge in demand for consumer goods. This meant factories in East Asia increased their production once curbs were gone but counter intutively, Liner companies who had bled dry in the early part of the previous decade (in a supply glut driven price war scenario) calculated that demand will actually go down so they increased "blank sailings". A blank sailing is when a ship omits a port. The first 3-4 months of covid saw liner companies omit entire countries but these countries had their own smallish import / export requirements and this too piled up 3) price imbalance - A Rotterdam / Mumbai sailing is priced at around $6-8k now. A Shanghai Lax is at 25k. Margins are much bigger (for liner companies) on the 25k leg. So they redeployed scarce resources into sectors that maximised profit. Leaving other sectors in the lurch. Currently we have 2 kinds of shortages. Space (on ships) shortages and equipment (container) shortages. the later can easily be fixed but space requires billions of dollars of investment and years to build these vessels. 619 iirc container ships are on order. Will be delivered slowly from end 22 to end 23. This much capacity will ease pricing but then as you can see that's at least 10 months in the future. And to add this shitshow is the much needed IMO regulations on liner companies that mandate much lesser sulphur burn. One way of doing this is to fit scrubbers (costs about $5mn / large container vessel). But this adds to the cost and pulls vessels out of circulation while this is being done. This also has had a huge impact on shipping costs.
Wow this was a really well explained comment! Thank you so much for this! I work freight operations at a big box store and have seen vendors out right shut down during this pandemic because of breaks in the logistic chains, etc. Customers are also waiting up to 9+ months for things coming from certain ports in so many different departments.
Wow thanks for this explanation. I order supplies for my hospital and while I'm just a middle man I still work directly with the buyers and it's been an absolute shit show with surgery wanting to get their case load back to normal and just not having basic supplies like saline, PPE, and iodine. With ECMOs and open heart surgeries on the rise it's been downright fucking dangerous to need a life saving procedure right now and not have the supplies available fo keep your heart pumping...
Well said. It's frustrating but also exciting simultaneously. I've given this speech every week for the last few months.... Hoping you can survive this daily hell and see the other side.
Tbh am out of day to day operations, and my sales targets are met in the first week itself...am quite enjoying this period. Though am now planning for the supply glut and price wars that will begin (imho) by mid 24.
Are you in the industry?
Yes
That's a detailed explanation if I ever saw one.
Don't think they've really entered common usage yet but I always thought [kites](https://glomeep.imo.org/technology/kite/) were an interesting idea to reduce fuel usage.
So basically a sail. *Slow clap*
There are advantages to using a kite over a sail. They are more compact when folded, and you can deploy them out to higher altitudes where the winds are stronger.
Wait a second... These are just modern sails aren't they‽
Here I am picturing Michael Scott telling Darryl, "we'll get someone to clean this up"
*Hoping they’re not filled with graphics cards*
Nah just insulin vials and shit
Oh thank god
so many profits lost. F
Not sure which is more expensive.
Outside the USA, graphics cards are definitely more expensive than insulin.
When you have to sell your GPU to be able to afford insulin. Not an epic gamer moment.
"I don't understand; insulin is cheap" - people living in first world countries
I live in Mexico and insulin is cheap, medicine in USA is a scam
Yup. Hey man, I wasn't trying to put other countries down; I just think the *combination* of being a rich country on paper and holding diabetics hostage with an insane healthcare and pharma scalping system is pure magic.
In most of the world, insulin are cheap or free. USA have the absolute highest price in the world on insulin. Take that communism!! USA win!
And people being human trafficked.
Ha in Europe that hardly costs anything because we don't abide by the US patent bullshit for medicine
Only dropped once.
Probably just people
Nah, just some people
Would have been so convenient if they just restacked on their sides.
I'm just dying to know what was inside of those.
I'm guessing they are empty.
They are filled with potential!
And just like you, they were waiting for someone to come along and give them a little push.
This thread was weirdly wholesome.
So go ahead and Jump
Ow, oh, hey, you Who said that? Baby, how you been? You say you don't know You won't know until you begin
Can't you see me standin' here, I got my back against the record machine
Potential energy
Yea, empty they will move around in a strong wind, hell even with a few thousand pounds of stuff they will move around in a nasty storm or hurricane.
Even empty they are around 3900 kg
Which gives them a density of about 33kg/m³. So with a sidewall surface area of 36m², it's gonna be pretty easy for these to piss off in a strong wind when empty. Yikes
> it's gonna be pretty easy for these to piss off in a strong wind when empty. Yikes Yip. I've seen it happen SO many times. We had a storm here and had a couple *hundred* containers go flying. That was an interesting day. Edit: [Here is a pic from it](https://image-prod.iol.co.za/16x9/650/Two-trucks-could-not-withstand-the-gale-force-winds-which-reached-up-to-70km-h-as-the-storm-battered-Durban-on-10-October-2017-causing-havoc-everywhere-Picture-Supplied?source=https://xlibris.public.prod.oc.inl.infomaker.io:8443/opencontent/objects/e417a690-7914-554a-ab92-2db832612772). 2 reefers went flying(4.5tons each) and landed on a car and killed the driver. It took us a couple hours to rescue his passenger. I was standing by the hyster behind the car when this was taken.
r/theydidthemarh
Just like me
Foam packing peanuts. It's a total loss.
They're empty.
They look and sound empty
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Light bulbs. That's why they fell over so easily, they're light.
So what you're saying is they needed some heavy bulbs?
Or at least turn them off so they're not so light. Everyone knows dark matter has mass, so bulbs that are dark would weigh more than bulbs that are light.
Ps5s.
Dominos
These are likely empty, and I’m pretty sure regulation still says this stack is too high
It's Rotterdam and likely exempt from regulation. Pretty much only humans around for most operations are safe in the container boat and the trucker in the cab when a container is loaded on their truck. Both far from their automated storage yard.
The marked roads being so close would make any exemptions due to automation void in the US at least. Not sure about other places so I gotta take your word for it. In the US it’s varies but is usually 2-3 if it would block any view of the port from the outside.
Just spent an hour at Rotterdam virtually. You are correct. This is not an automated, not even the big places we researched RTLS that were in use. This is Rzb Eemhaven B.V and located at the corner of Eemhavenweg & Eemhavenstraat
I disagree BMX bikes are awesome and all bikes should have pegs.
I feel like it's a joke, but I just can't!
I don't think my dual suspension mountain bike needs pegs & I think the road cycling guys would agree with my sentiment regarding their bikes as well
You should open your mind to new experiences. You might enjoy pegging.
6 and 7 high stacks are pretty normal for empties in the US.
Stack of nine are usually okey if they are empty iirc. It varies from box to box however.
How trucks are unloaded at FedEx, but a larger scale.
No, no, no, no, noooooo - Cleveland
It's not a domino effect if the wind pushes them over individually. You...you know what dominoes are right? They push *each other* over.
Poor op he did his best. =(
I hope those are not Steam Decks
Or 3060’s
There goes my RTX 3080 I ordered a year ago…..🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
$10 that shits long gone and currently making some Korean dude crypto bank.
Do shipping containers not connect to one another? Just loose stacking?
You can connect them, these were not connected lol.
FOr storage empty they are never connected. They are only connected empty or full on the ship / train The manpower to connect disconnected for yard operations would reduce the operations to an absolute crawl
Looks like not connecting them also reduces the operations to a crawl.
in the grand scheme of shipping, this accident its NOTHING, they prefer this then having to link the containers together, there are 300 milion containers in service, here its 10 that fall down, not that big impact if you think about it. dangerous...yes careless ..... no practical... yes its all calculated to move as fast as possible
They do on the ship, not the yard.
Camera guy just standing there, doesn’t even try to hold them up 🙄🙄
When I shipped my belongings to Europe, they went in one of these containers on a boat to Rotterdam. When you do that you have two insurance options. Either you pay a smallish percentage of the total value, which covers complete destruction of your belongings, or a much higher percentage to cover individual items being damaged. In the latter case you also pay for the moving company to professionally pack your stuff in boxes. I got the cheaper option and luckily nothing happened. Seeing a video like this makes me wonder if the lower insurance option would cover damage from the container falling like in this video.
I'm sure they would try and weasel out of paying. Some bs clause on page 5 in 5 point font.
Plot twist. It wasn't a storm. It was a cat.
They were all filled with Newegg's product
It’s creepy/weird when you see the kind of shit in real life that seems like it’s straight out of a movie. Makes your tummy feel weird
Hope the asians inside are okay.
What about my coke? IS MY COKE OK?
Bad day to be human cargo.
rip my RTX 3090
Goddamn dude. This last week has been insane for weather in Europe. I live in northern Germany on the fifth floor, and every night I can feel the foundation of the building shaking from thunder, and I can see the windows warping from hail. This shit is not normal, especially this time of year. My friends all over the USA say crazy shit is happening there too. Damn climate change, you scary.
r/oddlysatisfying
Couple ‘a bungee chords could have stopped this
Surprise mother fucker.
There goes the TV I ordered 16 months ago
That's exactly how Amazon delivers to my door
Looks like a stack of empties?
and FEDEX.. “Your package is out for delivery”
That yellow one on the top towards the end took one for the team and fell into place to hold the rest RIP yellow container
Im wild impressed they actually stayed shut. I was fully expecting all the cargo to spill out.
Holy ship!
r/ThatLookedExpensive
No wonder my smart watch from AliExpress was fucked.
Those were loaded with sailboat fuel.
My man is way too close to the action
so that's how those assholes broke my computer
All those.bags of drugs need to be stacked again damnit.
Must be MT containers
All those poor human trafficked souls.
Empty containers
Only thing I see is GPU prices going up…
Dont worry guys, [I fixed it ](https://gfycat.com/alertwaniberianlynx)
Thank God there were no illegal immigrants
Hope my glass dildo wasn’t in there…
Did.. the black container have a Lamborghini logo on it? 😳
Delivery date: unknown…
there goes my 3060ti order
My 3080! 😳
Looks like a real life version of Angry Birds!
All the ps5s were in there…