up a container takes longer which means a truck can't get back to the terminal as quickly which means there are fewer trucks available to pick up containers which means more and more containers stack up in the terminal with containers leaving the port less quickly there's less space for new containers which means it takes longer to unload ships which means ships are having to wait longer to get into the port which means there's less shipping capacity since journey times are longer and ships can't get back to asia to pick up a new load as quickly meanwhile all the congestion means that terminal operators are restricting or prohibiting shippers from sending empty containers back to asia which means that shippers in asia are struggling to find containers to use which means that they're having to buy new containers which pushes up their shipping costs and then all the supply chain chaos means that shippers are sending goods earlier which increases demand which furthers the supply chain disruption it's not so much a vicious cycle as a vicious web chaos compounding chaos this is what happens when disruption hits an industry designed to be extraordinarily standardized a system so reliant on economies of scale that the world's largest economy has to rely on five interface points with the world's largest manufacturing hub it's a perfect system a system responsible for many of the revolutions of the last century but systems reliant on perfection are those most vulnerable to disruption for now though the cogs keep turning the mars essex is out there somewhere between california and vietnam shuttling another load of containers from continent to continent probably the most common question i receive is the most obvious one how do we make these videos i've finally gotten around to answering that by making a video following the process of making this video from start to finish however i don't really have a natural place to put that on youtube so like all the companion videos we make it's on nebula that's because nebula is the creator founded and run streaming service with no algorithm no ads just the very best stuff us creators can make whether it be these quick companion videos long form big budget nebula originals or our regular videos early and ad-free of course we want as many people to watch this stuff as possible so we partnered with stream to make signing up super affordable it's less than NUMBER_TOKEN for an entire year but signing up there means you also get access to curiosity stream NUMBER_TOKEN where you can watch their huge catalog of top-notch non-fiction shows and documentaries like this episode of engineering the future about how the future of cargo ships might actually be a technology of the past wind power so two streaming services you'll actually watch for a year for the price you pay for a month of other services that should already be convincing enough but if not signing up actually helps make sure that not only wendover but loads of independent creators are able to keep creating independently with the stable income nebula provides so to get this deal and watch that exclusive behind the scenes video click the button on screen or head to URL_TOKEN today
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