Global supply chain collapse?

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30.9.2021, Peter Kopa

Our previous comments on the subject

In several of our previously published articles we have mentioned the collateral damage caused by government crackdowns on Covid 19 influenza. Lately there has been a very strong opposition in most countries to the forced imposition of vaccination, on pain of losing one’s job. In fact, millions of people have been fired from their jobs for refusing the vaccine, causing real disasters in so many companies, affecting families and creating harmful vacuums in all sectors of the economy.

Therefore, for the future, there is reason to fear, for example, problems in the food chain, from crops and animal husbandry to distribution. The same applies to the supply of water, sewage, energy and communication systems. In England, fuel shortages have already occurred at filling stations, with military units having to solve the problem.

The general impression is gaining ground that the reasons for this inflexible behavior of the states, today totally disproportionate, are no longer concern for the health of the citizen, but that there is a manipulative background seeking to destroy the current world order in order to establish a new one. La pandemia: indicios convergentes.

Workers Who Maintain Supply Chains Warn of Worldwide ‘System Collapse’

BY JACK PHILLIPS

September 29, 2021 Updated: September 29, 2021

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Several industry groups have warned world leaders of a worldwide supply-chain “system collapse” due to pandemic restrictions, coming as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell suggested that the current period of higher inflation will last until 2022.

The International Chamber of Shipping, a coalition of truck drivers, seafarers, and airline workers, has warned in a letter to heads of state attending the United Nations General Assembly that governments need to restore freedom of movement to transportation workers amid persistent COVID-19 restrictions and quarantines.

If nothing is done, they warned of a “global transport system collapse” and suggested that “global supply chains are beginning to buckle as two years’ worth of strain on transport workers take their toll,” according to the letter. It was signed by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the International Road Transport Union (IRU), and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), which represent some 65 million transport workers around the world.

“All transport sectors are also seeing a shortage of workers, and expect more to leave as a result of the poor treatment millions have faced during the pandemic, putting the supply chain under greater threat,” the letter said. “We also ask that WHO and the ILO raise this at the U.N. General Assembly and call on heads of government to take meaningful and swift action to resolve this crisis now,” they wrote.

Meanwhile, retailer Costco said it’s chartering its own container ships between Asia and North America amid supply chain issues worldwide, Chief Financial Officer Richard Galanti said in a recent conference call.

Costco, he said, is dealing with “port delays, container shortages, COVID disruptions, shortages on various components, raw materials and ingredients, labor cost pressures” along with “trucks and driver shortages,” Fox News reported.

Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, attempted to shed some light on the problem during a recent ABC News interview, noting that there’s a significant backup of container ships off the coast of major ports of entry.

“We’re witnessing a pandemic-induced buying surge by the American consumer, the likes of which we’ve never seen,” he told the network on Sept. 29.

In remarks on Sept. 29, Powell said that the current spike in inflation is a “consequence of supply constraints meeting very strong demand,” saying it’s “associated with the reopening of the economy, which is a process that will have a beginning, middle and an end.”

“It’s very difficult to say how big the effects will be in the meantime or how long they last,” Powell said during a forum hosted by the European Central Bank. The current price surge, he said, is due to bottlenecks in the supply chain, although he believes prices will eventually come down on their own. The surge will continue into 2022 before dropping, Powell said.

The Federal Reserve doesn’t anticipate the current trend to “lead to a new inflation regime, in which inflation remains high year after year,” Powell said.

“Managing through that process over the next couple of years is … going to be very challenging because we have this hypothesis that inflation is going to be transitory. We think that’s right,” Powell said. “But we are concerned about underlying inflation expectations remaining stable, as they have so far.”

Jack Phillips  SENIOR REPORTER at The Epoch Times based in New York.

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