Trade War Crisis Begins! Ports And Ocean Container Ships Have EMPTIED!
This image above is the Port of Seattle on Sunday, April 27, 2025, EMPTY. This is the 4th busiest port in the nation. Inbound freight from China has STOPPED. Supply-chain disruption will now begin, nationwide. The container yard at Seattle? EMPTY.
Anyone who has spent time in Seattle can tell you that these docks are always PACKED and the Puget Sound is usually overrun with waiting cargo vessels.
There are presently ZERO cargo ships docked or en-route. There are ZERO containers in the yard, and there are ZERO trucks waiting to haul cargo. Remember what I told all of you about stocking up on stuff and arbitraging it later once the shelves were emptied? Well… we're just about there. I explicitly warned you that this precise event - halt of inbound shipments - was coming over a week ago: https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/the-coming-shortages-get-what-you-need-now-theres-no-avoiding-whats-already-happened
Even if this global trade war is ended tomorrow, it will take a minimum of 30 to 55 days, but more likely at 7-9 months, to normalize supply chains and have available product again. And that's if everybody calls it off immediately. 40% of cargo vessels leaving China today (vessels that were already paid to make the journey, whether there is a reason to or not) are traveling completely empty.
Inbound Shipping container volume is down 80%
It wouldn't be the worst idea right now to go through your entire house and identify anything it is you feel you need but don't yet have, anything you have that might be on its last legs and in need of future repair or replacement, or things you feel you won't be able to procure going forward because everything is categorized as "backordered - indefinite."
The storm has now reached US shores, at Seattle. Within days, it will reach Los Angeles. Within a week, it will reach Houston, then Chicago (which won't continue receiving truckloads by railcar) and within a week after that, it reaches the port of New York city.
Even during the COVID lockdown non-sense, the supply chain did not experience THIS kind of sudden shut down.
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/national-news/it-has-begun-port-of-seattle-empty-zero-inbound-ocean-container-ships