Supply chain broken?

[TheGimp]

Although UPS and some other carriers have their own air fleets, a lot of packages are transported by air in excess cargo space of passenger airplanes.


With the flight restrictions for passengers between countries there are fewer flights available for package transportation.

How will this impact shipping?

 

[jan.didden]

My experience is that if anything, delivery seems even faster than before the crisis.
And the volume is also increasing, people buy more online because a) no need to confront people in the streets and stores and b) lots of people are bored sitting at home and look for things to do.

Jan

 

[PRR]

Although UPS and some other carriers have their own air fleets, a lot of packages are transported by air in excess cargo space of passenger airplanes. With the flight restrictions for passengers between countries there are fewer flights available for package transportation. How will this impact shipping?

Historically, air-mail contracts subsidized a LOT of flights. The amount of goods carried by the midnight China Air flight strongly suggests that mail is at least as important as passengers. And of course the only international mail left is small-goods packages from "poor" countries to rich countries.

 

[jfetter]

Yes my deliveries continued throughout too.
Not sure if this is old news, Beijing is getting back to normal.
I do not watch 'network news'.

Coronavirus: People in Beijing begin to head outdoors - BBC News

 

[TheGimp]

Two crystal resonator, oscillator RTC manufacturers have shut down plants in Malaysia, Philippines.

 

[jfetter]

Inventory in grocers is now vastly improved.
Sill not much paper products.

 

[AmadeusMozart]

Delivery staff go sick to work - due to the high volumes staff are threatened to be dismissed if they stay home.

Fortunately the virus does not survive very long on packages but it will pay to disinfect them before opening.....

 

[jfetter]

I know this is not true and is a deplorable cartoon but still funny.

 

[indra1]

Groooosss.

 

[Flavious Maximus]

Kazakhstan has suspended exports of socially significant food products since March 22 to guarantee the domestic supply, Kazakh Minister of Trade and Integration Bakhyt Sultanov announced on Tuesday.
The banned products include buckwheat, wheat and rye flour, sugar, potatoes, carrots, turnips, beets, onions, cabbages, sunflower seeds and oil.

I'll bet that's not the last we'll hear of this sort of thing.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization warned of global food shortages caused by measures to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.
"The worst that can happen is that governments restrict the flow of food," Maximo Torero, chief economist of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, told the Guardian.
….Some countries have begun to protect their own food supply by restricting exports, which Torero said could lead to an overall decrease in trade and a subsequent decline in food production.
"Trade barriers will create extreme volatility," warned Torero. "[They] will make the situation worse. That's what we observe in food crises."

 

[davidsrsb]

Two crystal resonator, oscillator RTC manufacturers have shut down plants in Malaysia, Philippines.

In Malaysia the electronics parts factories are allowed to operate, but asked to reduce staffing levels.
There may be problems at the borders. Many of these factories are in free trade zones and export via Singapore.

 

[jfetter]

Yes much of our very specialized medical equipment is made in China too, ie body worn injectors etc.
My wife just had one prescribed.
Sending a countries critical manufacturing infrastructure to another continent is not just stupid, its treason.

 

[Gnobuddy]

I'll bet that's not the last we'll hear of this sort of thing.

In the summer of 2010, wildfires exploded across Russia as a result of extreme heat triggered by ongoing climate change. The fires destroyed much of the wheat crop in the process.

In response, Russia shut down wheat exports, people began to go hungry in dozens of countries, and the Arab Spring revolts began a few months later, in part, because people were short of food and hungry, and increasingly desperate.

When people are hungry enough, it can override fear, and drive desperate people to rebel even when they're faced with a totalitarian government that will respond with violent and cruel reprisals.


-Gnobuddy

 

[jfetter]

Guidance from digikey.
COVID-19 Update | DigiKey
So supply chain no problem.