An unexpected victory: container stacking at the port of Los Angeles
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An unexpected victory: container stacking at the port of Los Angeles
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Re: An unexpected victory: container stacking at the port of Los Angeles
#2Just because they changed behavior doesn’t mean it will work.
Re: An unexpected victory: container stacking at the port of Los Angeles
#3Government can move extremely quickly when there is universal agreement. For precisely that reason, periods of universal agreement rarely last long.
Re: An unexpected victory: container stacking at the port of Los Angeles
#4Just because they changed behavior doesn’t mean it will work.
Incidentally, there was another post on HN earlier written by a truck driver and he believes it's more complicated.
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#5I suppose it's not fair, but I was disappointed after reading the title, hoping that the article would be an assessment on whether changing the container stacking rule has made a difference yet. There seems to be a fair amount of skepticism that the stacking rule was having a large negative impact, so I was excited to see an assessment of how/if it's made any difference.
Re: An unexpected victory: container stacking at the port of Los Angeles
#6Just because they changed behavior doesn’t mean it will work.
This. As the old saw says, for every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, obvious, and wrong. I mean, it's not a bad thing they fixed the rule, but either way it's unlikely to cause or prevent the collapse of the US economy.
My money is on the ports themselves being the problem. Having people waiting around for hours if not days is incredibly inefficient, and the Rotterdams, Singapores and Shenzhens of the world do not have this issue.
Re: An unexpected victory: container stacking at the port of Los Angeles
#7In Factorio design this is simply increasing the buffer size. If the truck-loadings-per-hour don't increase then it's not going to matter how large you make the buffer.
Adding a secondary site for putting containers also seems like it's going to be a new challenge for the logistics company scheduling the rides (I have a friend who deals with train cargo scheduling). Truckers who are used to showing up at the port are now going to have to go to a completely different site altogether, and who knows how many IO issues the new site will also bring in.
Now's the chance for logistics companies to start hiring OpenTTD players.
Re: An unexpected victory: container stacking at the port of Los Angeles
#8Some talk about 'building a new port' as part of the solution. I'm thinking that's a decade project and $100B or some such? PoLA tried to expand for a decade and the impact statements got bogged down and nothing happened if I remember right (my sister-in-law was doing the math on the statements)
Re: An unexpected victory: container stacking at the port of Los Angeles
#9In Factorio design this is simply increasing the buffer size. If the truck-loadings-per-hour don't increase then it's not going to matter how large you make the buffer. Adding a secondary site for putting containers also seems like it's going to be a new challenge for the logistics company scheduling the rides (I have a friend who deals with train cargo scheduling). Truckers who are used to showing up at the port are…
The trucks were acting as a buffer, if you believe the CEO of Flexport. So if you increase the buffer size, then the trucks can be trucks again and it's guaranteed to increase truck loadings per hour.
Re: An unexpected victory: container stacking at the port of Los Angeles
#10I suppose it's not fair, but I was disappointed after reading the title, hoping that the article would be an assessment on whether changing the container stacking rule has made a difference yet. There seems to be a fair amount of skepticism that the stacking rule was having a large negative impact, so I was excited to see an assessment of how/if it's made any difference.
There are many problems. Many. So it’s unlikely one fix is going to solve a lot and make a huge dent. But those problems need to be fixed one after each other as they compound on each other.