Looks like Russia gets to experience what the US has been experiencing for decades lol
Yeah, 150k for the entire country seems like very few. Here’s the stats just for the Port of Los Angele: https://www.portoflosangeles.org/business/statistics/container-statistics
A few notes:
- The US population is well over double that of Russia.
- The Port of LA and Long Beach together process more cargo by volume than all other US ports combined (all the crap from China)
“crap from China” like cancer drugs, iPhones, and CNC machines. In fact, the top commodity in US-China trade is machinery and mechanical appliances.
We are talking about trade here, so compare them by economies instead of population. Puts Russia into perspective every single time…
Touché, I was just thinking in terms of volume if we’re comparing sheet number of containers
Would they even stack up to California in terms of economic activity?
I’m aware, just pointing out it’s hardly a unique situation.
They’ll be hauled to Ukraine and used as fortifications.
To add some context, Russia still surprisingly has trade surplus with China. From the CNN article about this:
That included a surge of exports from China to Russia, which jumped 63.2% from a year ago to reach $71.8 billion. Imports into China rose at a more modest 13.3% to $83.3 billion.
Probably because of fuel sales.
China is getting fucktons of cheap gas, oil, rare earths and other resources out of Russia. As Russia has no actual products to sell.
That was my first thought: oil and gas don’t come in containers.
Reminds me of an old West German joke:
Two guys stand at a railyard, watching the trains departing to the Soviet union.
Guy 1: “What are we shipping out?”
Guy 2: “Cars, steel, machine parts.”
Guy 1: “And what are they sending back?”
Guy 2: “If we are lucky the train.”
