Wtf is happening with global trade?
>>71885884
Is this real?
>>71885884
WE CAN BUILD OUR COLONY NOW!
>>71885884
I'll take 3
>>71885884
We we link these all together we can build a base in the ocean like in Metal Gear Solid 5
>>71885884
Global trade is slowing down and there are currently too many ships for the amount of goods crossing the Ocean.
>>71885884
i cant afford that faggot
>>71885884
ITS HABBENING
With rising nationalism increased demand for locally made products could increase and make global shipping even less important. Maybe I'll pick up a ship when they are selling for $0.50. $1.00 is too rich for my blood.
Where can I buy one?
>>71885884
>>71886255
The markets are changing gears slowly from the developed world to the developing. In most developed nations, aggregate demand for most low industry, cheap goods are either stagnate or going down.
>Why?
Markets saturate and often it takes a while for the zeitgeist to catch up to the reality of the market. This was a huge problem late 19th century; how many chairs does a person need? My factory can produce chairs above the rate at which they are destroyed and at which people need more. Thus, my operation causes the very price of the object I sell to go down until it becomes worthless.
What's happening in a lot of developing nations is the goods they once exported are now sold in such quantity that the cost of exporting them has exceeded the profitability of selling domestically. Thus, the new middle class of China is buying those goods rather than Europeans/Americans.
>>71886572
I wish I knew, set sail on the SS /pol/ and start a new mobile community.
>>71886766
>not the SS Sieg Heil
Did you know that even landlocked Switzerland has a high seas fleet? And a flag that isn't a square?
The more you know...
>>71886583
Also don't forget the permanent decrease in demand for some goods as the boomers begin to die off.
>>71886876
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntxKRj9DRnc
>>71886876
https://youtu.be/PG-qCyYZRms
Diamond Dogs.
Our new home.
I wouldn't take a boat if it was offered to me for free. The third most expensive toy behind women and planes
>>71887198
What they don't tell you is that the boat is $1 but it needs $400,000 in repairs and has several liens on it etc..
>>71887198
But it's a revenue-producing asset.
>>71886995
>>71887125
>Americans being proud of their ignorance
And that's exactly why Hillary will be your next president. Have fun.
>>71885884
The fuck is a tonne?
>>71887369
2500 pounds
>>71887368
Is it true that the swiss are the most antisocial people on the planet?
Serious question.
>>71887369
5.421 heavy weavies
We have been in a depression for awhile now. The FED knows this, they refuse to pull the plug and let the crash bottom out. They are scared, its one of the reasons they are flooding us with 3rd worlders looking for jobs that dont exist. Its distraction
>>71886255
Was considering making boat and becoming a shipping captain the other day
>>71885884
morons don't even remotely udnersand what is happening. the reason they need to sell for 1 dollar is because of the god damned regulatory shit. they intend on taking massive tax breaks for loss.
international trade has been declining since about 08. i used to be a tug boat captain and i read shipping publications. hopefully we are bottoming out now. the shipping market is at an all time low. i still haul chemicals up the intercoastal, but i am getting stepped on. real ship captains are starting to take 200 ton routes, which makes my ass wait.
back only 2 years ago i was guaranteed 28 on and 14 off. now i can only get a guarantee of 14 days on every month..
Yes, 1 dollar.
It's easier to sell the ship for one dollar than to sell it for thousands and pay 2 times more in taxes and documentation.
Such a ship will take you at least 50k dollars every year in authorization, passage of property, insurance and damage scooping and repairing.
Not counting the 20 skilled sailors needed to man it correctly.
t. ship autist
>>71887573
>the most antisocial people on the planet
>Switzerland's Humanitarian Tradition
Yeah, it's probably true. The latter is just some sort of coping-mechanism you don't see in more adjusted countries.
>>71887198
If you don't want it just sell it to someone else it scrap it, you'll still make a boatload (wink) of cash
>>71887743
1000 Kg
>>71887917
>Was considering making boat and becoming a shipping captain the other day
Have you considered that water has a different density than poo?
thats called money laundering lmao, those ships sell on the open market for millions.
>>71887917
>sailing the designated streets of poo
>>71888022
My swiss girlfriend left me 2 days ago.
You have no idea how much painful is to me to see your flag.
>>71888358
>You have no idea how much painful is to me to see your flag.
Well, have another then.
You're welcome.
>>71888358
Oh God, that feel... Get over here, bro...
(bro hug)
>>71887294
not sure how much profits you're looking at over operating costs of a large ship pirating "refugees"
Shipping is responsible for 98% of global emissions. That's why. Look up bunker fuel
Dunno about other countries, but Swedish shipping has been in decline for years. Fewer and fewer ships have registered under Swedish flag. Have a friend who is a educated captain. Can't find a single job in the industry.
>>71885884
Guys, guys, guys.... what if....just listen to me, we all buy our own bulk frigates and lock them together in the pacific and make our own artificial island nation?!
>>71888595
>Carbon dioxide emissions from shipping were equal to 2.2% of the global human-made emissions in 2012
at least you got the 98-2 ratio right.
>>71886029
THIS exactly my thought kek /pol/ony is real.
>>71888684
We can later then produce enough revenue to buy old oil rigs, fix them up, structure them together, and create our own motherbase.
>>71888684
Hulls are going to rust through and the whole thing is going to sink... You'll have to take them to dry docks once in a while to replace sacrificial anodes.
>>71887573
Pretty sure its the finns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESFFFW0B64I
>not buying a boat for $1 and sailing around Somalia shooting niggers
>>71888875
Anon, we can just buy another 1$ frigate to replace the rotting one.
>>71888806
Underwater or above?
>>71888945
Lets put cannons on it and hire our selves out to kill pirates?
>>71887972
fuck it, there has to be some retard that buys it for 1 dollar then neglects it.
>>71888945
it's a fucking tanker, it'll cost you thousands of dollars per hour to operate
>>71887125
Kevin Meaney is a fuggin funny guy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dGTpUCuBuAY
>>71888099
>If you don't want it just sell it to someone else it scrap it, you'll still make a boatload (wink) of cash.
This. Asuming the boat is not already sunk with massive debts, scrapping it seems like the best bet.
>>71888358
You deserve it you stupid Italian fuck.
>>71888962
Above obsiously.
>selling a ship for $1
I call bullshit. I could make a few grand off scrapping it.
>>71889969
It probably came with debt. I've seen some companies tie the debt from building the ship to the future revenue streams expected from it.
any news from the polony? do they know about this?
>>71888462
Uhm, I don't know what to say to a Swiss. Can I hire some mercenaries, I guess?
>>71885884
Oh no, a megacorp built too many trade vessels. Boohoo.
>>71885884
Global economy is based on lies, anon.
nobody has money to buy cheap chinese crap anymore because the rich elite have sucked up all the wealth
>but they said it would trickle down!
ha ha, reagan's favorite meme!
>>71887369
Your weight
>>71887972
This. I'm a live aboard, and the $1 thing is retard-tier misrepresentation. Sure, maybe you can buy the ship for a dollar, but it's going to cost hundreds of thousands, if not millions, to move it anywhere or even keep it anywhere. You cant just drop anchor and leave the ship indefinitely.
The most useful thing for these right now is probably gutting, salvage, and using the rest for artificial reef construction or something.
I would assume you would have to pay huge port fees just to store it
>>71894317
Aren't those just storage yards where they wait between being dropped off by boat and hauled off by truck?
>>71887368
Working on finalizing my move to Switzerland, Hillary won't get me.
>yfw they all get purchased by Soros and he uses them to ship Migrants to Europe
>>71895315
Yes. There are a few in San Pedro, CA. This is like the "plastic coffins" and FEMA trains horseshit. Just morons who need to mentally masturbate.
>>71894317
fuck, you know how easy it would be to waltz in and just steal one of those fuckers?
Goddamn.
>>71895468
Why are they being stored on runways and test tracks?
>>71887917
every deck would be the poop deck.
>>71895653
Because they are paved open areas with little use?
>>71885884
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/376258/pacifics-salmon-are-back-thank-human-ingenuity-robert-zubrin
The author's bio is pretty fucking redpilled.
> Robert Zubrin is president of Pioneer Energy, a senior fellow with the Center for Security Policy, and the author of Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil. The paperback edition of his newest book, Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism was recently published by Encounter Books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization
> In an article in the scientific journal Nature (February 1988; 331 (6157): 570ff.), John Gribbin was the first scientist to publicly suggest that the upcoming greenhouse effect might be reduced by adding large amounts of soluble iron compounds to the oceans of the world as a fertilizer for the aquatic plants.
> Martin's famous 1988 quip four months later at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, "Give me a half a tanker of iron and I will give you another ice age",[6][7] drove a decade of research whose findings suggested that iron deficiency was not merely impacting ocean ecosystems, it also offered a key to mitigating climate change as well.
http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/China-Manufacture-Supply-Price-Ferrous-Sulfate_60368076561.html?spm=a2700.7724857.29.1.aXI4A8&s=p
http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/ferrous-sulfate-price.html
Time to bring about the eternal winter.
>>71895653
Probably because they're already there and can be bought up or leased cheap as shit by the shipping and logistics companies as opposed to buying miles and miles of new land just to throw down slabs of pavement in land-expensive areas like England or Japan.
Regardless they're not "unsold vehicles". They are unsold in the sense that they haven't been sold *yet*. Once a car is made it belongs to the dealer who then either sells it or finds another use for it. Cars go to die in junkyards and are either ripped apart for salvage or crushed. You're not going to go hiking and stumble across a field of brand new 2002 subaru foresters, unless they were in transit to dealerships.
>>71895940
would dumping a bunch of iron into the ocean really make that much of a difference? this is interesting
>>71895744
Underrated
Why would they sell it off for $1 instead of selling it for scrap?
>>71895940
this is such an interesting topic, thanks
>>71887276
It can be assumed that anything being sold at $1 has negative real value.
>>71896087
The ocean is pretty big and the processes in there don't need a lot of elemental reagents each. It sounds pretty plausible to me senpai
You just need some hardcore research to figure out what elements are in demand by the ecosystem and how to deliver it effectively
>>71897450
Probably it's dirty (oil) and poisonous (asbestos).
>>71897450
Because they probably cost more to maintain than they are worth, and more to scrap than they are worth.
Its like when you see run down properties on sale for $1, If you buy it, you're the one now stuck with the bills, tax, clean up costs etc.
They are a right-off
