It has been labelled a “global transport crisis” – a shortage of shipping containers in Asia is triggering record freight costs.
China is ramping up its production to meet the rising demand.
But pandemic restrictions around the world have compounded the problem, causing lengthy delays and a heavy backlog at ports across Asia.
Al Jazeera’s Sarah Clarke reports from Hong Kong.
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Nice deflection China. We have still not forgotten the ongoing Uyghur genocide and live organ harvesting. Nice try!
I blame the millennials making those tiny homes out of shipping containers, no cap
Tiny homes are made from shipping containers that have already been retired. Shipping companies do not sell shipping containers that are still being used. They sell the used old ones to companies that resell them to consumers. Shipping containers have regulations on how many times they can be used and what condition they must be in to be used. When people buy them used for tiny homes, they are almost always reconditioned in some ways, such as cleaning, painting. You don’t just go buy a brand new shipping container and use it as is for a tiny home.
@joker s r/woooosh
cheaper then a brick house, that’s why we are in a housing crisis
@Slithermotion Back to plebbit, the censorship haven
“we dont want globalisation” say the trump crowd…China: Be careful what you wish for!
@Modi Superpooper 2020 and By “western main stream media” you mean all media that isn’t CCP govt propaganda. You’re the one who isn’t informed. Even if you did know what the CCP was doing, you couldn’t talk about it or they’d lock up you.
@Nana Huang nope only those media of a certain political sphere who prone « freedom and democracy » while committing war crimes abroad. I watch both sides and do my own research, contrary to you, who is blinded by msm propaganda.
@Modi Superpooper 2020 How can you say I only watch “MSM” when I’m commenting on CCP media? Nobody I know watches VOA or RFA. Govt propaganda is a joke. At least western media can investigate and report on what they want. CCP media can only criticize other govts. Blatant hypocrisy.
@Nana Huang You comment only to troll. Duh. “At least western media can investigate and report on what they want.” You sure? Don’t make me laugh! Where did you see CCP media criticising other gov? Surely you are confusing the Chinese media with Sky News Australia, CNN, BBC, DW, France 24 and so forth.
@Modi Superpooper 2020 Not at all. Watch CGTN or CGTN America, half their videos are to criticize the west. Even the foreigner shills like gweilo60, dumbrill, baretts etc.., they’re all on the CCP payroll and they all spend at least half their videos criticizing the west. CCP media is rated as less factual than the sources you mentioned.
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7,000 to ship a container
7k to not ship it and use it as storage.
…… I donno, they said china drove up housing prices from immigration, I dont see too much immigration but housing prices sky rocketed.. the amount of containers didn’t fall off the cliff during covid, so now its chinas fault again????
Nobody is saying that China is at fault. Well, apart from being responsible for the coronavirus outbreak and all the unavoidable restrictions that arose and impacted freight ships, transportation routes and trade overall.
Anything you handled badly, it’s good to find someone to blame.
Majority of Americans dont know their foot from their hands. Its nothing new. They just know what the media tells them.
@Matthew Ng most of the ppl actually. Majority even never go out of the nation and talking WISELY as wiseman. Not only USA, but all around the world. YouTube is the platform gathering narrow interest together and makes them happy because they say words the like.
EC containers are not coming back to Asia due to the Pandemic.
China has helped the world in multiple levels in this pandemic, from Mask/PPE, to Vaccines (5 types, totally 2-4b doses in 2022), to economic recovery. China even helps establish local vaccine productions in Brazil, Serbia and Africa (this could be a game-changer because of possible up-coming pandemic in the future). After Trump quitted WHO, China additionally provided $2b for WHO to continue its operations.
@Peter Magro they have a past history of food hygiene problems but that doesnt mean it caused the COVID. Past doesnt represent presence or future. People like you are very weird, when its one of your close friends commit a crime, you say “he is a good boy, he didnt mean it”. When its a stranger commit a crime, you say “kill that mf using all of legal power”. Thanks for your ignorance!
@Krunalsinh Vaghela what a conflicting statement, if you know my identity, how I can still “hide my identity”. Weird logic
@the Oracle of Delphi what do you mean why not copying things western doesnt have? Hows that even possible? Based on your logic, people can predict the future?
@John Steve you should learn
to form ideas with some literacy.
@the Oracle of Delphi sure coming from a person who just uses two words “why not” and call that “idea” and “literacy”. Fabulous!
Dat stimulus…. for Asian imports.
Kind of funny that a previous socialist state, China, and its communist ruling party, are doing all they can to ramp up the production of goods and products which in itself strengthens the endless and superficial consumption society that communists tends to oppose. China has realized that a free market economy with a capitalist framework is necessary for fast growth and to eradicate poverty. But the country should change their image of being red socialists. CCP should change their name.
trade is good for china, so they do BRI, mass manufacture containers and build merchant ships and go around promoting free trade. Now, War is good for USA, so they……. (fill in the blanks) -and yes communist is evil and bad yada yada, so people dont say i have unbalanced views. =)
In the Past CCP : China Communist Party, now CCP : China Civilization Party.
Can you define communism before you talk about communism. China has never been a communist country. A one party state yes but never communist. Anti-Imperialist yes, but never communist. Are the Chinese people in support of their leaders? Yes! Are the Chinese people happy? Yes yes yes. Are people really happy in America? You tell me.
You realise that capitalism, socialism and communism are just stages of human society (the others being primitivism, slave society and feudalism). Society is supposed to transition from one stage to another when it is ready. You can’t skip stages of accelerate the pace by force. As for being “communist”, no country that has (or had) “communist parties” in power ever claimed they were living in communism, not the USSR, not China. They just recognised that it was a long process, and they were only in the initial stages of socialism, where the means of production are owned by the state for the benefit of the people. China is neither completely socialist or capitalist. It is a mixture of both. The Chinese government still tightly controls the commanding heights of the economy (e.g., the biggest banks, key utilities), sets the strategic direction of the economy, and owns much of the economy through state-owned enterprises even if they operate mostly in a market model. Some day, when AI and automation completely wipes out the need for human labour, society will naturally transition to socialism and then communism. Communism is a hypothetical stage where goods are produced in abundance, and society is supposed to be classless and stateless. Most people who talk wildly about socialism and communism don’t know the first thing what these terms mean, other than use terms to stand for “things I don’t like that I’m afraid of”.
uhh, no. they’ve gone capitalist since Deng Xiaoping
they just dont want to admit it
they want consumers
that’s their main economic pull
boycott all china made products
@marax It’s going well, jobs are already moving to Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Mexico.. it’s been going on since 2019.
🤣🤣🤣🌶🌶🌶🍆
What is up, fustrated Afghan Butcher? Still butthurt that China no longer wants to buy your coal?
haha,nobody stop you, you can do it by yourself
@Nana Huang later on there will b , don’t buy Vietnam, lndia , lndonesia, Mexico etc.
keep all the containers away from china do not send them back
@Nana Huang You already have, and claim that it is for recycling. Google western waste sent for recycling.
@Timothy Han China stopped importing recycling materials a few years ago, please try and keep up.
@Nana Huang Cant Understand the sarcasm , thats a shame. Guess will just have to stick to simpler terms then.
@Timothy Han Or maybe learn what sarcasm is.
@Nana Huang Touche Touche . Nice new Account btw
F*CK China
I think HK isnt the China’s biggest port or whatever this video claims the ranking of HK port in China. I think the port in Shanghai is the biggest in China and the top 3 in Asia during pandemic.
Edit: Thanks everyone for helping me get the fact straight. So it just proves this video is another western propaganda who tries to portray HK still strives over mainland China, which apparently it’s not
@Dubs so are you saying that you have got nothing to argue?
@John Steve yeah, whatever wumao. my last reply was: “check out my previous comments then”
and you couldnt get anything damaging from it so you pretend to not understand and dismiss it
usual wumao tactic
@Dubs if you have the effort to copy and paste and write another bunch of bs, why dont you just list your pov and evidence? Instead of just using “wumao” over and over and over, its kinda getting really boring
youre drowning in your bias and CCP propaganda. Rewatch the video, a dozen times, they NEVER call it the biggest. They say its ” one of the busiest”
@Zsari Maxim No need to argue with him, he has his OWN definition of a Container Port. Perhaps he does not like the word China and anything associated with it?
When China makes em more and fast.. Not a word of thanks…🙄🙄🙄
@Kumar HasanIQ83 I’m not Indian, but can you have the CCP warn us about the next virus release? Thx
@Nana Huang your fist name seem like a chinese name ,learn to pretend you are not chinese
@Nana Huang ok what if they tell the truth what about 20 million plus lives can you bring them back
@Furqan 695 It’s about accountability and owning up to mistakes made. This is the SECOND time the CCP lied and tried covering up a virus outbreak, SARS 2002 was the first, and the CCP did the same exact thing. What happens when China has the next virus outbreak? You know with the encroachment on nature, the large population as well as adventurous diet of some Chinese people, it’s only a matter of time until there is another outbreak.. How many years do you think? 5 years? 10 years if we’re lucky?
@Nana Huang The virus is from The USA. You should take to the scientist from Fort Detrick Lab.
Other countries: Do things with mouth
China: Just Doing things No nonsense
@Green Tea chinas government is full of corrupt snakes just like America’s.
@N B who is talking about corruption? They’re not my words anyway but by Numuves channel on American host react to facts about China
@Darcy Mcnabb people like you are the reason the rest of the world are disgusted, if you’re unaware of how fcked up your own government is and keep acting arrogant, you gotta fix that superiority complex
@Green Tea you are delusional if you think China is ruled by “scientists and engineers”. They are a bunch of communist career politicians looking for power.
@N B Well you basically ignore the source I gave you. Majority of them are communists but also scientists and engineers.
Gdp in China is going to fly again 😍
what a shining example of communism🤣🤣🤣
So this is how they force belt and road project of china
No, the CCP bribes foreign, corrupt government officials to sell off their resources to the CCP through secret BRI contracts. When the people of the foreign countries find out, it’s too late.
The Chinese know the biggest drawback of capitalism, that money controls everything.
@Nana Huang like Endia?
Poor and un-educated?
So embarassing
You cannot get your girl friend pregnant, so you are gonna blame it on the milkman and the postman who stop by your doorstep almost everyday for not helping out in getting your own girl friend pregnant?
@lexneuron lol
My fault , I have a container in my backyard I’m using as a storage building.
Many people do it now.
You Americans make them into houses too.
Please report to the nearest police station and surrender your container immediately.
well, it cheap who wouldn’t do that.
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Chinese bots are coming
?? Troll
US is buying up all the containers to house children at the border
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Good at lest the children will be some what safer .
@Darcy Mcnabb Mhm, then they get funneled into a proper family, one that will cherish them, not exploit them. It blows my mind people think they are just taking innocent familys children away. Like they dont know why laws exist Ahaha
@爱我中华 The CCP Virus killed 2.7+ million people worldwide and should be prosecuted in the world court for crimes against humanity.
Cage you mean😭
THE HOSPITALS IN CANADA ARE WAKING UP WITH LINES OF PEOPLE IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT FOR COVID IS CRAZY THE NEWS ARE NOT SAYING ANYTHING
Right
Does Covid cause your cap lock button to stick?
These days, whenever there is a global shortage of anything, or a global crisis of any kind that needs a quick response, China is perhaps the only country with the state capacity, political organisation and industrial power to provide it. The US and Europe will just talk all day pointing fingers. Other countries in East Asia are well organised and have political leadership, but they are too small to meaningfully solve global problems.
American helped the poor CCP China Nazis to become the manufacturer of the 🌎. America is pathological liar CCP China’s suggar daddy. All the countries need to STOP import made in CCP China products. Other asia countries has the ability to make all good quality products.
Shortages of cheap junk does not a crisis make.
@Doogie Chen Talk about Nazis, it was the American Wehrmacht which invaded Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan and Yemen and killed millions of people. By one estimate, US wars, coups, sanctions and sponsored civil wars have killed 20 million people in the Middle East. The US Holocaust of Muslim continues.
@Doogie Chen i don’t think that superior countries would change course with that idea, since China is recognized and has the reputation of cheap labour and has the highest available manpower, also China has the resources and technology to produce products and materials, while other asian countries doesn’t have the technology or resources to produce exactly the same of China’s advancements and capability.
So can I think you are helping the United States speak for its shameless world hegemony?
That’s why shipping cost is very expensive . It also affecting product high costing as well
Another reason to move manufacturing away from China and back to your own country/region.
And that is why you’re not an international businessman
COMMENT: Logistics expansion issues, as a result of increased money supply, and issues of demographics….:)
If I understand correctly it has always been an issue for China (and I guess other Asian tigers) to get the containers (boxes) back in China as the trade was largely one-way with little quantity of goods flowing into China. This was fairly well balanced until a year or two ago by waste/recyclables being sent to China in those boxes. This maintained a balance in the number of boxes either side of the Pacific.
However, since China stopped (banned) importing waste for recycling the imbalance in boxes has increased so far more of the empty boxes remain, eg in the US. This I believe has helped lead to the current shortage of containers in China, and i guess other Asian countries.
China better fix this issue cause its their fault
No, its the fault of the western countries, sell more to China.
Oh wait, they hv nothing to sell.
So embarassing
Pretty sure China didn’t cause the west to perpetuate and worsen the global spread of covid. Sure China started it, but these countries failed to fcking sort themselves out
@T K it started un the USA, read the CDC reports.
CNBC from few weeks back said China has been selling so much that they’ve been offering to buy back empty containers and Western countries are finding it more profitable to ship back empty containers than to wait for it to be loaded up with goods. Can’t remember the exact price per container but it was in the thousands.
If I understand correctly it has always been an issue for China (and I guess other Asian tigers) to get the containers (boxes) back in China as the trade was largely one-way with little quantity of goods flowing into China. This was fairly well balanced until a year or two ago by waste/recyclables being sent to China in those boxes. This maintained a balance in the number of boxes either side of the Pacific.
However, since China stopped (banned) importing waste for recycling the imbalance in boxes has increased so far more of the empty boxes remain, eg in the US. This I believe has helped lead to the current shortage of containers in China, and i guess other Asian countries.
the steel price increased too much last year…
China to the rescue again! Well done.
The only thing China is doing is for China PERIOD!!!
how tf do we have a shortage of containers?
dont we just reuse them?
@Kumar HasanIQ83 but how did you find it? also why did you only make an account a few months ago?
are you just a kid who got into youtube recently?
@Dubs if you trade, you would know.
@Kumar HasanIQ83 I’ll take your word for it then internet stranger
@Dubs LOL, thanks i guess.
Its open information if u know where to search. Tsuß
@Kumar HasanIQ83 that’s what drug dealers on the dark web say lol
anyway, doesnt even seem to be an issue
Now I know this is temporary
Indian daddy Xi jinping
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@Bat Man pakistani troll spotted….
@Bat Man not really, china is old and dying but india is young
@RoastWorthy Xi jinping will be the New king of india.. like babur and alauddin khilji 🤺🤣🤣🤣 Chindia Empire🤣🤣🤣
@Bat Man Fool
If your local Walmart have empty shelves, chaos begins.
It’s clear who holds the leverage internationally
Shortage in semi trailers in America too. Waiting lists up to a year. Aluminum prices have soared. Nobody has paid rent in a year. On and on. Worst is yet to come.
Remember who put this plan into motion and punish them.
Thanks to the. DEMOCRATS A Hs
The CCP wuhan virology department.
So, GDP is falling everywhere (except in China, of course . That is the 4° law of Newton) , and exports from China (consuming) are rising beyond container production? ! HAHAHAHAHAHA
Costs are rising because demand collapsed and if any part of this ridiculous video was true , the only thing that could bring down costs would be BUILDING MORE SHIPS, not containers.
Morons
This is all bullshit. Truth is wharf owners around the world is using terrorism and the pandemic as an excuse to jack up prices nobody wants to pay.
They going to need it.
propaganda at its best
An the rest of the world is left out of manufacturing!!!!
THE WORLD HAS YET TO RETALIATE AGAINST CHINA AND ITS PEOPLE FOR THE MASS DEATH AND FINANCIAL STRESS IT HAS INFLICTED ON THE WORLD. CHINA AND KOREA SHOULD BE DEVIDED UP AS GERMANY IN 1945. XI MUST BE HUNG PUBLICLY AS A SYMBLE OF HEALING.
It’s covid related I can bet
Boycott Chinese goods!
We Indians are starting to manufacture our own.
Ok, why didn’t HK automated their system with AI?
It really shows how countries need to go back to being more self sufficient like the good old days, much better for the enviroment as well.
You do know the horses bolted already, don’t you.
countries can’t product thing to sell, at a competitive price, factories unless its automatic, lack skill staff, people want things on time, shelf stacked to sell, if companies can meet deadlines, it will lost future order or pay a forfeits.. hiring non skill staff, means quality suffers…….. blah blah
@mizzypoo Yeah poorer people will still buy chinese as its cheap but many will be happy to pay a bit more for good quality stuff that is made in their own country.
This is something I’d often wondered. How many containers are there in circulation in the world? Where are they made? (The answer seems to be, not altogether surprisingly, China)
see u haul and how they get their rentals back to seattle
I got a solution: Only buy local goods
Some locally produced goods may be even more expensive.
Lol my friend in the container industry said this is 200% manipulation by ccp. Period. They release a virus, crashes global shipping, then ccp creates demand for scrap, the world cuts up 50% of the ships in Goa India. Ccp halts 100% production of containers. Drives price through the roof. The ccp has this power. All companies in China are the ccp. One day the tell them to cease all production, and they do. It’s extreme manipulation
Do as a house? maybe shortage cause or is it shipping slots? Users send them back or keep them as converted? Buy less from china export more to them? Shipping empty containers? 4th quarter set back? Buy small items air mail?
Sick and 😩 tired that pathological liar CCP China are the only one who released Wuhan Viruses and benefits from the disease. STOP importing pathological liar CCP China products and Apps. There are many good quality and cheap products from other countries. Make pathological liar CCP CHINA and WHO compensate for the misleading Wuhan Viruses information.
Globalization become Chinalization. Don’t allow CCP China to control your economy and country. Myanmar and Tibet are the best examples.
Make products closer to home so we don’t experience this ever again. Should be common sense after we experienced 2008 financial crisis and coronavirus.
It’ll be solved with time and effort
incoming hyperinflation
Does China have Labor Unions or just a few Bosses?
Second world problems!
We asia can still life without western. 😊😊😊
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All countries should strive to maintain higher levers of domestic production capacity. Perhaps 50% of domestic good use atleast and then form strategic partnerships with our allies to produce chine monopolized goods.
US used to send them back filled with plastic. There was a ballance. Now there is no reason to send empty containers back because China doesnt want plastic anymore.
Containers use as houses in shantytown
Thats a really good reason to buy locally made products then isn’t it.
You will bake in summer if you live in a shipping container.