My neighbour is is a journalist for a trade magazine on shipping
he's been forwarding about the huge problem of shipping container shortages for months now. Instead of shipping containers having return journeys taking goods one way, then being refilled to go somewhere else a huge number have just been delivered... then nothing. The result is a global shortage of the boxes used to move goods and now Mr Garold can't get the IKEA dining table he wanted.

www.ship-technology.com/features/global-shipping-container-shortage-the-story-so-far/
(this wasn't written by my neighbour FYI)
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 31 Aug 2021, 14:06, archived)

article dated April 21
'Maersk, the largest container shipping line and vessel operator in the world, has been significantly affected by the container shortage but believes that the current situation will soon improve'

no sign of that yet, quite the opposite
( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Tue 31 Aug 2021, 14:25, archived)

The shipping container shortage may get resolved
but you'll know about how long it takes to get logistics plans in place. You can't get the materials and the components so goods can't get manufactured pushing up the price. The closure of the Suez Canal fucked things up. Covid fucked things up. Brexit isn't through fucking things up yet, we're still waiting for that to fully kick into force.

We are going to be keeping our freezer fully stocked because supplies are going to become a lot more precarious for the next year or two.
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 31 Aug 2021, 14:39, archived)

I think you're being overly nervous here
I fucking hope so - more about the 'or two' bit than the 'next year' which I think is pretty much a certainty. Wot larks
( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Tue 31 Aug 2021, 14:47, archived)

FOOODWARS

( mongychops, Tue 31 Aug 2021, 15:01, archived)

oh god not again

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Tue 31 Aug 2021, 15:11, archived)