Global Shipping Lane Map

It makes you really understand the whole China Sea argument and Russia needing a passage through the Mediterranean despite their Cold War days.

That is amazing information.

And, it is really interesting to see it all in motion.

Truly intriguing. Do you have any expertise about the individual/important shipping lanes themselves?

England and Western Europe/Mediterranean seem really congested.

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Truly intriguing. Do you have any expertise about the individual/important shipping lanes themselves?

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I mostly keep up with US container export trends. I am in that business. One thing that most people aren't aware of:

There is a Walmart DC under construction near Mobile. It will be the first one on the Gulf and the 4th largest in their entire system.

The Port of Mobile currently handles about 400 x 40' containers per day. When that DC reaches full capacity it will handle an additional 600 inbound containers a day. That's 600 containers that will be headed back to China empty from the Port of Mobile every day. That is a huge opportunity for exporters. To balance our trade with China we need to fill those containers. We are currently trying to fill them with lumber, logs, scrap paper, scrap metal, pulp, resin, soybeans, chicken meal, etc.

We need to start filling them with consumer goods. And match the Chinese at their own game. They love US brands over there. Anything to do with health, food, hygiene, nutrition, medicine, etc. They know our products are better. And they don't trust the Made in China label. It is a paradigm shift in export opportunities coming into our backyard.

Also, I didn't know that the Chinese valued American products more than their own Country.

Is our "image" really that great there?

I thought that it would be the opposite.

I thought that they hated ALL American-made imports.

Very interesting.

I hear you on the "match them at their own game" though. There is NO reason why we could not do this.

It's probably kind of like it is here. Except over there, instead of talking about how breakable our shite is they call it barbaric or something.

I will only buy a Chinese product after inspecting it. Too many bad purchasing decisions.

But, I will buy an American product and just trust it.

I guess there is a difference, but I feel more comfortable with an American seal or mark.

That goes for any foreign product though...including products from Germany, France or Switzerland.

I just feel more comfortable if it has a USA symbol on it.

Unless we are talking about cars. Then I would love a Jaguar or Ferrari.

Foreign companies really know how to do cars.

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We need to buy way more American products and goods.

There is no reason not to do this.

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Cost could be a reason.

Of course they had to plug the False narrative of the contribution to global warming....

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