Houston we have a problem! Well not quite Houston. It is really the Isthmus of Suez. As the world finally begins to bask in the glow of the covid vaccine we are confronted with a new reality.
Potential delays on all those 100" flat screens coming to a living room near you. Price gouging on your favorite matcha drinks because the raw material is in tins stuck on a boat. No beef. Because it is sitting on some really large ship stuck in the traffic on water. Somewhere near Egypt.
What?
LOL.
It turns out a massive container ship called Ever Given (irony of that name is just too good to be true) is sitting askew blocking the very canal it was supposed to traverse in under two weeks. It carries millions of tons of produce, packaged goods and livestock. So do 100 other vessels on their way through the same highway called the Suez Canal. Now all stuck because this one boat could not make it across.
Beside dusty and destitute villages that line the 120 mile canal (man made waterway) that cuts through the isthmus that connects Asia and Africa, sits this Japanese made vessel like some sort of obstruction in one's colon.
It reminds me of those Roto Rooter trucks we see in American neighborhoods that get called at odd hours because a kid threw some obstruction in the toilet. And now you have a poop jam.
This is million times worse.
They are doing essentially a massive unclog operation for the past five days the ship has been stuck. But to no avail. A high tide might bring salvation if it lifts all boats. Especially Ever Given and set it free to continue to spread capitalism to those hungry shores waiting patiently for their Chinese made medicines and furniture.
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