@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2023-12-08 13:21 UTC
The “Pinch that stole Christmas”:
Brill.
"The possibility of a canal bottleneck turning into the “Pinch that stole Christmas” should be a catalyst for buyers, manufacturers and shipping companies to reassess their whole approach to supply and logistics. Centralising manufacturing and piling products into ever-larger ships makes less sense if transport bottlenecks diminish economies of scale."
#PanamaCanal
https://www.afr.com/companies/transport/climate-change-could-ruin-christmas-as-panama-canal-dries-up-20231206-p5epg4
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@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social 2023-12-22 14:36
"More than 40% of consumer goods traded between north-east Asia and the US east coast are transported through the #PanamaCanal. In normal times, the Panama Canal has capacity to handle 36 ships a day. But as water has grown scarcer, the canal authority has reduced that number to 22. By February, it will be just 18." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/22/changing-climate-casts-a-shadow-over-the-future-of-the-panama-canal-and-global-trade