Thread: It used to be beer strikes. Now pallets for Christmas!

..........and now!

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I'd like to know how this news gets around .. and why such a delay.

We've had pallet issues since the start of the year .. maybe even late last year!
Company I work for has a contract to do Loscam pallets, and when they got me to do those runs earlier this year for a couple of months, the demand for pallets was insane.
Usually when they dehire pallets, they get fixed up to go back out as close to new as possible, but the demand was so high, I'd have loads of pallets that would go to the Loscam depot, supervisor would give me paperwork and out I'd go again with 500 half baked pallets to their new home.

For a couple of months a large food company here in Aus were sending containers of Loscams as returns to Tassie(form Melb) at a rate of close to 10K per day.
Containers of frozen foods would come into their warehouse, and the containers would wait on the dock for us to get there, they'd unload us, straight into the containers and Toll would cart them off to go to Tassie.
Otherwise the frozen foods would just sit there in Tassie with no way to get to mainland.

Things settled down about 2, maybe 3, months ago and all 'back to normal'. Only one chap doing those frozen empty returns AFAIK again .. and I'd guess he's doing about 1500plts a day again.

Santa uses raindeer so hope this is not another problem for him.
What is the great shipping container shortage and could it ruin your Christmas?

And amid an international supply chain crisis, with a growing backlog of delayed orders and labour shortages across networks, the importance of these bland metallic boxes has never been more apparent.

Oddly Ships themselves are struggling but that tomorrows Xmas Halloween yarn.

Bit of a blow here in Melb. South OZ- Any of you have the lights on? "Another wave of thunderstorms has knocked out power to thousands more homes across South Australia — and even forced the brief evacuation of the weather bureau's Adelaide office."

The QLD might have it as well


"A spectacular dust storm has swept across parts of Queensland's far south-west, with the outback town of Thargomindah in the path of the giant cloud that rolled through late Thursday afternoon.
Winds up to 93 kilometres per hour brought the wall of thick brown dust through the town of about 270 people.

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There are a number of "it used to be...." coming back, and the picture above of Thargomindah plus the news that it is only two months to Christmas remind me that dust storms coming up to Christmas were a feature of my childhood in the forties and fifties. The first line of an Australian Christmas Carol, written in the fifties is "The red dust is over the town!"

And now, just on cue, we have a railway strike, carefully planned to disrupt final highschool exams in Sydney. The beer strike is usually a bit closer to Christmas, as is the coalminer's strike.

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Santa uses raindeer so hope this is not another problem for him.
What is the great shipping container shortage and could it ruin your Christmas?

And amid an international supply chain crisis, with a growing backlog of delayed orders and labour shortages across networks, the importance of these bland metallic boxes has never been more apparent.

Oddly Ships themselves are struggling but that tomorrows Xmas Halloween yarn.

Bit of a blow here in Melb. South OZ- Any of you have the lights on? "Another wave of thunderstorms has knocked out power to thousands more homes across South Australia — and even forced the brief evacuation of the weather bureau's Adelaide office."

The QLD might have it as well


"A spectacular dust storm has swept across parts of Queensland's far south-west, with the outback town of Thargomindah in the path of the giant cloud that rolled through late Thursday afternoon.
Winds up to 93 kilometres per hour brought the wall of thick brown dust through the town of about 270 people.

"

we the labour, We have the ore, get off our behinds and make our own containers. a new industry

Another shortage, Diesel in China
Apparently a 100 lt at a time if your a truck, if available.
This will have a knock on effect.
I guess the generators are running flat out due to the coal shortage

I feel so sorry for them

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Santa uses raindeer so hope this is not another problem for him.
What is the great shipping container shortage and could it ruin your Christmas?

And amid an international supply chain crisis, with a growing backlog of delayed orders and labour shortages across networks, the importance of these bland metallic boxes has never been more apparent.

Oddly Ships themselves are struggling but that tomorrows Xmas Halloween yarn.

Bit of a blow here in Melb. South OZ- Any of you have the lights on? "Another wave of thunderstorms has knocked out power to thousands more homes across South Australia — and even forced the brief evacuation of the weather bureau's Adelaide office."

The QLD might have it as well


"A spectacular dust storm has swept across parts of Queensland's far south-west, with the outback town of Thargomindah in the path of the giant cloud that rolled through late Thursday afternoon.
Winds up to 93 kilometres per hour brought the wall of thick brown dust through the town of about 270 people.

"

It used to cost us about $2.5k to get a 20 foot shipping container landed, these prices have now gone up to between $10k-$12k. We've had to order 6-9months worth of solar panels, inverters, rail etc...to try keep the pricing down before ut really skyrockets. Panel prices are going up at a great rate of knots, supply and demand.

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

we the labour, We have the ore, get off our behinds and make our own containers. a new industry

Manufacturing is long dead in AUS…..

I wonder if the current steel makers in Aus even make the steel (corten) required for shipping containers. Probably not…….

The standard of living Aussies demand prices is out of the manufacturing market.