Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "What's Going on With Shipping?" channel.

  1. Such a relief to see your modest shirt today, Sam.
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  2. Sal really buries the lede here: the big point is, Matson invented container shipping. He gets around to it eleven minutes in, but given a truly historic fact of this imporance, I'd have thought it was the main thing to be said about excellent Matson. First they built a one-forty-footer roll-on-roll-off lighter to serve around the islands. Then some guy on their senior staff said, "Hey, this forty-footer thing is neat. Let's do it everywhere." There was a small problem at the time: the docks at Long Beach were controlled by a ver-ree militant Communist union. But Matson had another bright thought, "Hmm, maybe Communists like money." So they went to the union with a two part offer: first we give everybody in Long Beach right now a life-time job at a hefty raise; second, we get your leader a membership in the Bohemian Grove. Bingo! Problem solved: Long Beach automates like crazy, Matson switches to all-container ships and the industry follows, and Long Beach becomes as dominant in peace time as it had been important in war.
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  3. ...the company of high ladies, sound money, good cigars and fine liquor.
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  4. Uh, Sal, How long is it going to take Vietnam to figger out how to build ships? Factoid du jour: in just the last two quarters, China's averages across the whole economy have just drawn even with their world-wide equivalents. No, I don't know what this means overall -- but I think that China's supposed malaise right now might have a little to do with the problem facing tens of thousands of middle-level exporting businesses. They are suddenly facing the necessity of contracting work out to Vietnam, India, Indonesia, and so on, all the while losing their long time berths as cheap manufacturers looking up the line to America and the EU. PS. And BTW: as usual, your show today is excellent. I'm a big admirer -- and eager student.
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  5. A reck recycles is not "pillaged" nor "looted." A warship, particularly a European one well outside Europe, has ceased to be anyone's property. If somebody comes along and mines it for metal, good for them!
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  6.  @robertlee6338  Quite the opposite: Nord Stream is the Russian's most valuable source of hard money. My guess would be somebody's covert forces, in order to prevent any temptation being plied upon the Germans to "be reasonable" and relent. Maybe even Germany: a self-denying ordinance!
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  7. "Naval Collision: Aircraft Carrier USS Truman & Panama-flag Bulk Carrier Collides Off Egyptian Coast" collide. It takes two to twangle.
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  8. "Derivation" is a singular noun. The derivation of a million plural things is still singular.
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  9. It wuz the Fignuggles, known to lurk in the area waiting for an unsuspecting aircraft carrier to wander within their fignugglability. Just letting you know the acts so you don't get led astray by them conspiracy nuts...
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  10. Sal, It's good that you apologise for butchering people's names -- but you don't have to actually lose entire syllables, at least in cases where the spelling is strictly, phonetically, accurate, as here. The guy's name is Liimatainen. Not a phonics problem in sight. Just look at it carefully, and read it to yourself slowly on your prep run-through. (I believe that you do do a preparatory run through, unlike many many a-holes on YouTube. Congratulations!) Li-i-ma-ta-i-nen -- with that a-i in the middle probably elided into an "ai," pronounced just like "I." When you do this you find that you've screwed up his name in a way that has nothing to do with it being furrin'. You missed a syllable, one of the i's. This is not "understandable" because it's foreign or long or complicated. It is unforgivable because it shows unmistakably that you're just being lazy.
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  11. Whaddyamean ".Why Don't We Have More of Them?"?? Ronald Reagan's thousand-ship navy is almost totally made up of them.
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  12.  @Belzediel  The radically wrong innovation of architecture was the tubal body. The stress stength of carbon fibre is utterly irrelevant to the question of whether you can twist or squash a tube.
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  13. Bridges do not control bodies of water they cross. Bodies of water sometimes encourage the building of bridges. Sorry, Peter: you're letting words run away with you. I share the bias the the Jones Act was a very bad idea, but it doesn't have much to do with this accident.
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  14. @ciuyr2510 Uh, modulo the fact you're missing the clowns, the mangy rats, the oompah band. And that "nicely built house" must have something wrong with half the people inside that got this guy elected... The Republican electorate since maybe middle-Nixon is something that really, really needs some sociological, but more importantly some psychological, explanation.
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  15. Not quite. Four times is "Somebody is fuquing the dog: that guy should have been working for us since last week."
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