Look who was at the helm, :tongue-out3::tears-of-joy:
Lee
Lee
General Shortage of Models?
- Thread starter Dave Ward
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Naah, no need to panic! ( says he smugly, with a huge stash! ). If you buy models direct from Asian shops, then most of them dispatch by airmail, so that shouldn't be affected - just the lottery of if HMRC decide to take an interest in your purchase!
Dave
Dave
HI Gerry which CRANE FRUEHAUF dereham or the one i was at the big one north walsham plant ?
chris
Not sure - he was on the electrics side, wiring the trailers (got me a 'end of reel' bit of wire so I could re-wire a motorbike - plenty left over
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Chris. I’ve pulled many of Fruehauf chassis’s and Piggy Back van trailers nothing pulls like a Fruehauf.
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In my varied jobs, I used to work for a P&I club. The first thought I had when I saw the Suez news was that's going to cost. 400million a week it turns out!
The amount of boxes being held up IS going to effect us all. Lets face it 90% of the things in your home if you look on the bottom or the back says made in china! Might be a good thing for European manufactures though...
As an aside I have also had "a go" at driving one of those Container trucks/loaders. Apart from being great fun it was a bit nerve racking. Also tried one for pipe laying moving. We're talking 1m dia 15m long steel pipe. Much the same as the container movers, you just have to be careful where you put them down. (If they roll toward you not to bad, if they roll away.... not so good.)
The amount of boxes being held up IS going to effect us all. Lets face it 90% of the things in your home if you look on the bottom or the back says made in china! Might be a good thing for European manufactures though...
As an aside I have also had "a go" at driving one of those Container trucks/loaders. Apart from being great fun it was a bit nerve racking. Also tried one for pipe laying moving. We're talking 1m dia 15m long steel pipe. Much the same as the container movers, you just have to be careful where you put them down. (If they roll toward you not to bad, if they roll away.... not so good.)
Not so good for European manufacturers Ian. Most of the components for manufacturing, such as motors, fasteners etc. probably come via the same route. It may well screw up vaccine manufacture as well.
For vital components, air freight will be used ( and not so vital ) - I once had a pair of cast iron crankcases airfreighted from China to India!
Dave
Yes, but some parts will already be in the queued ships, and replacements have to be manufactured, checked, and shipped. In addition, though critical parts, essential items, and lighter non-essentials can be moved that way, heavy bulk items such as fine chemicals cannot all be airfreighted. It shows very clearly the fragility of a global supply chain. Perhaps now the canal may be upgraded to be fit for modern requirements?
Thee Suez Canal was closed from 1967 to 1975 - It caused the vast increase in oil tanker size, as previously they had been limited by the canal. ( I went through the canal for the first time in August 1975, a month or so after it reopened ). With the advent of containers & the large ships carrying them, the Suez Canal was widened & deepened to accommodate them, but the 1869 canal is hugely expensive to modernise, and you can't do the work, and keep the income flow..................
Dave
Dave
True, and shortages will only be short term while supply lines are rerouted, but for things like Pharma manufacture the companies cannot simply change to an alternative supplier. There are regulatory requirements around supply chain definition that would incur potential revalidation and regulatory submission work. Cost is less important here, but it could certainly cause a delay in manufacture and supply while these things are sorted out.
Upgrading the existing canal is probably a non starter. After all, making it bigger and deeper will probably just allow the ships to grow to fit It
Upgrading the existing canal is probably a non starter. After all, making it bigger and deeper will probably just allow the ships to grow to fit It
Hasn't it been upgraded quite recently? From Wikipedia: "In August 2014, the Egyptian government launched construction to expand and widen the Ballah Bypass for 35 km (22 mi) to speed up the canal's transit-time. The expansion intended to nearly double the capacity of the Suez Canal, from 49 to 97 ships per day.[9] At a cost of 59.4 billion Egyptian pounds (US$9bn), this project was funded with interest-bearing investment certificates issued exclusively to Egyptian entities and individuals. The "New Suez Canal", as the expansion was dubbed, was opened in a ceremony on 6 August 2015. "
I can't see them doing that again in a hurry.
Pete
Looks like they have a solution....
(With thanks to Pete Low, whose FB timeline I nicked the image from)
(With thanks to Pete Low, whose FB timeline I nicked the image from)
If my Geography serves me right I don't think the Pyramids in Giza are nowhere near the Suez but closer to the Nile.:smiling: But a nice image for a joke.
Cheers,
Richard
Cheers,
Richard
SO lee i gather you liked the Fruehauf trailers ? well in my opinion i think we built them to good so we did ourselves out of our jobs as they were lasting to long but it was nice to take pride in my work welding an on some they had to pass an xray test to check for any cold welds an to think well good job done
chris
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