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

You are 100% right, tariffs just means people will buy less so the economy slows down. My fear is you end up creating a snowball effect where people don't just slow down 10% but way more and it keeps going becasue price declines tend to lead to people buying less.
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@HoboEAT I honestly now want to know how many oarsmen it would take to move the container ship LOL
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@for2utube Well ships have thousands of electrical connectors and so much is exposed but good maintenance is key to everything.
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Well companies don't want to show advertisements on videos with those sort of content and I can understand it I guess
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It's the same in the US with large numbers of fields of work start off as apprentices and as union members
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China decided they no longer want to be the world's factory and so we have a chance in a lifetime here to bring the USA back to manufacturing power, return power to the western world and provide tens of millions of jobs for Americans that can only do manual labor, tens of millions of Americans are doing nothing, sitting on their hands, have reverted to crime and drugs instead of hard work. It won't happen with the current leadership. We need to devalue the dollar, cut minimum wage, remove EPA laws and force the FED and banks to on MASS aggressively fund manufacturing in the USA. This is chance in a lifetime to turn the tide and return our nation to where it should have been if it were not for Nixon's great disaster of a plan to pacify China and yet, President XI reverted all the effort in just a few years anyway!
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Also i-10 fire and collapse in Los Angeles area was pretty quick. I live in Seattle but I have lots of friends and family so I got constant updates for some reason LOL.
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Thank you for the background on the issue. The bombastic news story headlines are not a good idea during time of global tension.
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Glad you are doing better! Being down and sick is no fun. I always wondered why they do not imbed in to the cable a heavy thick fabric cushion, I imagine since the cable is round it would bounce back instead of compress even though the anchor is so heavy and moving fast.
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It's amazing how shipping has become such a hot topic over the last 3 years since the Ukraine war started and I think it's only going to get a lot more interesting.
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Another Korean ship also had issues with Cargo and a turn too wide in the sinking of the Ferry MV Sewol among other issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_MV_Sewol#Causes
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Fantastic video! Great information thanks.
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The US ship building industry collapsed after Regan ended the subsidy program for each Commercial ship built here, at the time, in 1980s Japan was Not giving out subsidy so Regan saw it as unfair the US Taxpayer was subsidizing the industry while Japan was not. Bethlehem Steel collapsed just a few years later. Now in 2025 the game is very different, China is giving out subsidy for each new ship built and so are Korea, Japan, France and UK. So if the USA wants to reclaim commercial ship building in 2025 and beyond we need to start giving out subsidy for each ship like all the other countries and customer will come 100% guaranteed. The US Gov will get back the money from taxing the companies, and workers but will need to pay out large subsidy per ship - but this is the name of the game and will grow the demand for steel which alone is very important aspect .
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To me it looks like the 18 wheeler made it off just fine before the impact. I see no traffic at all during the collapse except for the DOT vehicles with flashing orange lights.. Keep in mind only the metal part that overhangs the shipping lane collapsed the rest of the bridge on both sides is fine and standing right now, you can go and watch the recent daylight helicopter view. The only vehicles I see that fell with the bridge are the DOT cars that's it.
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@donkeyentertain Oh I just read your comment yeah that makes sense. I assume the road deck with 4 lanes is also a lot of cement weight coming down on the ship but it is pretty thin comapred to the support so your comment makes more sense
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Its beautiful there in N Michigan this time of the year!
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Money spent on infrastructure comes from taxes so if you want to newest and best infreasturutue you will only find that in states and cities that are growing fast with new influx of people and businesses = more tax money = more infrastructure. Let me list for you a few places you can go in the country where infrastructure is really impressive, mostly brand new and expanding and growing rapidly, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Sacramento, anywhere in Idaho, North Carolina, Texas and Florida, in the process of expanding quickly in Georgia and Tennessee but it will take some years. Just some examples of areas I have been to personally.
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The DOT shutting down traffic saved lives for sure, during the collapse the only vehicles I See that fell are the DOT vehicles so the 18 wheeler cleared off the hanging span over the shipping lane and on to the concrete pile section which is standing just fine right now. You can go and watch the live helicopter videos in daylight and see only the metal hanging structure fell the rest is standing. The 2 other crossing points over the bay are under water tunnels which might be the best option to just go underground
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There is massive incentive to force industry to move closer, rather than invest in shipping infrastructure. Where are we building new train routes? To Mexico.
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For the last 40 years the western countries were for the most part happy to part ways with lower end industry in exchange for having lower costs for the upper tier manufacturing like Boeing and Airbus, higher standards of living and most of all low inflation regardless of economic situation making it an easy job for central banks in the west. However, this is now coming apart, the costs are rising, inflation is returning and now China is going after upper tier manufacturing. Europe was fine with losing thousands of companies making consumer goods but to lose Airbus? tech industry? Cruise ships building? Tool making? Automotive industry? Now we have a problem. China is more than happy to see Apple and Samsung rush out of China as it no longer cares about lower end manufacturing they want to big players now. They want technology, chip making, ship building, Airplane manufacturing there is no doubt that China feels that they are entitled to move upmarket and making the life of their own citizens better and I can see their side of the story. It's not much different then what happened during the rise of other nations and their impact on a globalized world. However we will now face a glut of higher end industry and with that a missive risk to anyone that cannot compete with China. So, what do we do now? Well we have only 2 options, let China compete with the west's lucrative industry directly or split the world in to a new cold war. On the surface the USA is not interested in a new cold war as said by Joe Biden himself yet he also said that it was time for a new world order. The problem is, so far it sounds like we want it both ways and that is just not going to work. We can start off by subsidizing industry, give money out to Boeing and other big players, ban the import of Chinese made cars but eventually we poke each other enough and that cold war idea is back on the table however it may be too late to win by that point. If you want a new world order the time for that is now or we simply have to brace for the rise of China to it's next phase of development from developing to fully developed country.
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We MUST TAX every single ship that docks in the USA that is not made here and ramp that up fast and hard until the TAX Is so high we break any company that fails to follow through. Let's get the show going before its too late. If you want to dominate the world oceans it starts with civilian ship building.
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This just seems like a play for the election to get votes, it says temporary...
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The issue is much deeper rooted, the people of NZ, the public of the country looks down on military role in society, they are fine operating some traditional army that operates as a token, for peace keeping and to fulfill some ceremonial role in structures of Government, but as a fully functional role of defending NZ and it's interests? That is seen as Neanderthal. Almost as disrespect to the public. Unless the people of NZ change their psychology, pay their tax, many find ways to reduce or avoid tax, and willing to let their children spend years in service of their country as national duty, then NZ military has no foundation. A military is a ghost without it's nation's people making that become reality. Military is nothing without the nation's consent, dedication and sacrifice financially, morally, and willing to let their children be part of it.
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China is disgraceful!!! These are old world empire tactics To demand control/ownership of another countries ports with threats to basically force trade to route through a 3rd party country if control is not provided.
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@hallymiao2825 lol indeed
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@gmw3083 Grow up Russian bot. Tell your master Putin he needs to pay you more.
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I think at minimum we need to bring back commercial ship building to this country and start off by taxing all docking ships that are not made in the USA which is every commercial ship but put pressure to start a few orders going and then get more aggressive as needed. But you need a foundation to build on and you will piss off some allies, France, Korea, Japan, but they will understand just like how Taiwan understands what is being done in Phoneix we need the same effort for ship building.
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