Aldi getting desperate in Australia

Aldi Australia CEO just sent this to everyone on the Aldi mailing list, desperately trying to tell people to "rest assured, there isn’t a food shortage, just complications and delays associated with less employees", as Australians walk around empty shelves.

Functionally it is the same thing - people can’t get food. It hasn't been sent to us, or processed and packaged, or stacked on the shelves, or picked and harvested, or fertalized due to ongoing Adblue shortages in Australia or...

Meanwhile abbatoirs are shutting down due as asymptomatic workers are required to stay at home. Meat IS running short already.

The shortest supply chain is the one that starts and ends right in your own home! Grow your own.

#SupplyChain #Australia #WarOnMeat #FoodShortage

DARPA funds Soylent Green as Empty Shelves in USA - #BareShelvesBiden Trends

DARPA is funding the creation of 3D printed food from "mixed waste," to be served "when traditional food is unavailable." #BareShelvesBiden is trending as empty shelves are found across the USA, and the LA Times promises the situation is only going to get worse. The food supply chain is buckling under the pressure of mandates and quarantines. What is the agenda behind this engineered shortage? Find out in this Ice Age Farmer broadcast.

@iceagefarmer

https://youtu.be/Jj5VUeJM_lQ

https://www.iceagefarmer.com/2022/01/10/darpa-funds-soylent-green-as-empty-shelves-in-usa-bareshelvesbiden-trends/

#iafvideo #FoodShortages #FakeFood #SupplyChain

Federal Reserve starts monitoring Logistics challenges

Above is the Federal Reserve Bank of NY’s new “Global Supply Chain Pressure Index”

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Supply chain disruptions have become a major challenge for the global economy since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Factory shutdowns (particularly in Asia) and widespread lockdowns and mobility restrictions have resulted in disruptions across logistics networks, increases in shipping costs, and longer delivery times. Several measures have been used to gauge these disruptions, although those measures tend to focus on selected dimensions of global supply chains. In this post, we propose a new gauge, the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index (GSCPI), which integrates a number of commonly used metrics with an aim to provide a more comprehensive summary of potential disruptions affecting global supply chains.

More here:

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2022/01/a-new-barometer-of-global-supply-chain-pressures/

#Shipping #SupplyChain

Federal government holds urgent talks with industry leaders to address supply chain issues

The federal government has held urgent talks with industry leaders to find a solution to widespread supply chain issues caused by COVID-19.

Essential services have been severely impacted by the Omicron outbreak, with thousands of workers isolating after having contracted the virus or being designated a close contact.

The staffing crisis has lead to bare shelves at supermarkets and forced some major food retailers to enforce product limits on several items.

Coles this week restricted the amount of meat products, pain killers and toilet paper customers can buy, among other products.

#Australia #SupplyChain

https://7news.com.au/sunrise/on-the-show/federal-government-holds-urgent-talks-with-industry-leaders-to-address-supply-chain-issues-c-5271167

Two weeks to flatten ... the supply chain. I'm sure things will be fine then.

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Can’t Find Pasta or Cat Food? Empty Store Shelves Are Here to Stay

Social-media sites are full of photographs of empty grocery-store shelves, and the head of one of the biggest U.S. supermarket chains says the situation will take weeks to improve. [Just two weeks to flatten the supply chain]

Albertsons Cos. had been expecting that supply outages would be improving by now, but “omicron has put a bit of a dent” in that, Chief Executive Officer Vivek Sankaran said Tuesday. As a result, the company is still contending with a range of products that are out of stock after months of similar headaches.

#USA #SupplyChain

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-11/can-t-find-pasta-or-cat-food-empty-shelves-are-here-to-stay

Two weeks to flatten ... the supply chain. I'm sure things will be fine then.

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Can’t Find Pasta or Cat Food? Empty Store Shelves Are Here to Stay

Social-media sites are full of photographs of empty grocery-store shelves, and the head of one of the biggest U.S. supermarket chains says the situation will take weeks to improve. [Just two weeks to flatten the supply chain]

Albertsons Cos. had been expecting that supply outages would be improving by now, but “omicron has put a bit of a dent” in that, Chief Executive Officer Vivek Sankaran said Tuesday. As a result, the company is still contending with a range of products that are out of stock after months of similar headaches.

#USA #SupplyChain

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-11/can-t-find-pasta-or-cat-food-empty-shelves-are-here-to-stay

Canada has dropped the mandate for truckers — the US still has not. It was set to go into effect Saturday (1/15).

The Canadian federal government is backing down from its vaccine mandate for Canadian truckers three days before it was set to take effect.

The new rule will still take effect for American truckers, who will be turned away at the border unless they've been inoculated starting this weekend.

About 10 per cent of the 120,000 Canadian truckers who traverse the border may not have been able to work those routes because they haven't been jabbed, according to the trucking alliance.

The vaccine mandate had already started to impact trucking operations.

American Trucking Association chief economist Bob Costello estimates that just under half of the 28,000 U.S. drivers who regularly haul freight across the border will no longer be able to do so, posing a threat to the smooth supply of goods.

#SupplyChain

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/feds-make-last-minute-reversal-on-vaccine-mandate-for-truckers/ar-AASIxZS?ocid=msedgntp

CORRECTION: Canada now HAS NOT dropped the requirement for truckers!

They now claim the representative made “an error” in her announcement. Supply chain disruptions back on.

What an obscene performance.

#SupplyChain

https://globalnews.ca/news/8509307/vaccine-mandate-truckers-border-back-on-covid/

China’s latest covid lockdowns are again affecting global supply chains

China’s aggressive pursuit of covid-zero has revved into high gear against omicron, locking down whole cities for weeks, closing factories, and throttling ports, raising concerns that China’s efforts to control omicron’s runaway transmissibility will prolong or worsen manufacturing and shipping delays for the battered global supply chain.

Already, companies are seeing production delays. This week, Toyota said that operations had come to a halt at its factory in Tianjin, the Wall Street Journal reported, after the city imposed mandatory testing after detecting two cases of the omicron variant [just two]. Volkswagen also closed a plant there as well as in the port city of Ningbo, where a small outbreak occurred, the Journal reported.

Hong Kong-listed Shenzhou International, a supplier for Nike, Adidas, and Uniqlo, said in a disclosure to the stock exchange that it had to suspend operations at several production sites in Ningbo from Jan. 3, and that operations had not fully resumed as of Monday (pdf).

#SupplyChain #China

[paywalled]
https://qz.com/2112516/omicron-sends-freight-prices-from-china-to-the-us-back-up/

BNSF unions preparing to strike, threatening further interruptions to supply chain and particularly US West coast ports.

17,000 operators have initiated steps to go on strike following the railroad’s announcement of its so-called “Hi-Viz” attendance policy, “the worst and most egregious attendance policy ever adopted by any rail carrier.”

The policy is so restrictive that employees would be penalized for missing work to attend the funeral of an immediate family member.

It forces “our members to report for duty without regard for their medical condition as we struggle to come out of a pandemic.

Workers “are routinely called without warning due to the complete lack of reliable train lineups, thus creating the potential for an even more unsafe railroad operation.”

#SupplyChain #USA

More: https://smart-union.org/news/smart-td-blet-rail-unions-initiate-steps-to-strike-bnsf-properties-over-new-hi-viz-attendance-policy-punishing-sick-rail-workers-during-the-pandemic/

Meat section completely cleaned out at Aldi, Victoria, #Australia.

via JoJoSpark in @iaf_chat

#WarOnMeat #FoodShortages #SupplyChain

No more sashimi? Hongkongers’ favourite Japanese fare part of looming supply shortage as tough Covid-19 aircrew rules bite into cargo capacity

- Experts have warned reduced capacity for imports in general will hurt city’s status as global cargo hub if stringent rules for aircrew continue

- High-end Japanese restaurants will be ‘highly affected’ as more than 90 per cent of sashimi they use are flown into Hong Kong
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Hong Kong’s catering sector is bracing itself for a shortage of Japanese seafood, especially sashimi, a favourite fare among residents, as tightened Covid-19 quarantine rules for cargo aircrew are expected to drastically restrict the supply of goods into the city.

Experts have warned that the reduced capacity will hurt the city’s status as a global cargo hub, if the stringent rules on such aircrew – requiring them to isolate in a designated hotel for seven days upon returning – continue.

#SupplyChain #HongKong

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3163314/no-more-sashimi-hongkongers-favourite-japanese

So truckers are stopped at the border for mandates, train operators are striking, airlines are being grounded for 5G, and major ports are closing.

Who needs a #SupplyChain anyway.

Grocery store closures loom amid labour, product shortages - Canada

Grocery stores are struggling with rising labour and product shortages that could threaten Canada's food security, experts say.

Employee absenteeism due to workers calling in sick and COVID-19 protocols has hit about 30 per cent at some stores and is continuing to rise, Gary Sands, senior vice-president of public policy with the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers, said Tuesday.

If the situation worsens, some grocery stores won't be able to stay open — threatening food security in rural and remote areas that rely on a sole independent grocer, Sands said.

"If we have to keep sending people home, at a certain point stores are not going to be able to operate," he said. "We're very frustrated with the lack of rapid test kits for grocers."

"Independent grocers are in a myriad of communities in this country where there is no other grocery store," Sands said. "If those stores close, you've got a food security issue."

Meanwhile, stores are also experiencing a shortage of goods stemming from supply chain issues, including a shortage of truckers, packaging and processing delays and the Canadian winter.

But some supply chain issues could be longer lasting, such as the trucker shortage intensified by the federal government's new vaccine mandate.

"The issue with the truckers having to be vaccinated is causing some delays, especially with the supply of fruit and vegetables from California," Sands said.

#SupplyChain #Canada

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/grocery-store-closures-loom-amid-labour-product-shortages/ar-AASUbXm

Alberta: cattle feeders face increasingly desperate feed shortage.

“Several larger feedlots have indicated that they will run out of all feed in a few days.”

This is beyond catastrophic, with 1.5 million cattle unable to secure feed.

#WarOnMeat

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Elevators working in reverse as Alberta cattle feeders face increasingly desperate feed shortage.

“It’s a mess,” notes Kevin Serfas, of Serfas Farms, based at Turin, Alta. “If you only bought exactly what you needed on a week-to-week basis, you are in panic mode right now. I started November 1 and probably have half my orders. I’m not sure what needs to change. Everyone just blames the prior link in the chain.”

That chain includes grain companies, railways and railways, as well as trucking companies.

In some cases, grain handlers, such as Cargill, P&H, Richardson, and Viterra, are essentially trying to run their elevators in reverse. Rather than taking delivery from producers and loading grain onto trains, they are taking delivery of corn by train and transferring it onto trucks to fill sales contracts they’ve signed with cattle feeders — many of which are the same producers who otherwise sell grain to these companies.

Labour shortages, due to COVID-19 and more, have exacerbated the challenge in some situations, causing delays with loading and unloading trains and trucks. Several feedlots say delays in unloading trains have resulted in the railway putting a lower priority on these shipments. In some cases, they’ve been penalized financially with demurrage fees. [IAF: Stunning that the railway can simply stop shipping animal feed.]

There’s also concern the Canadian and U.S. government’s cross-border vaccination mandates, taking effect January 15 and 22, respectively, are removing a significant number of truck drivers from the road. Several sources told RealAgriculture they’ve also heard of a train being delayed due to crew members not wanting to have to quarantine in Canada.

To put the amount of feed that’s needed in context, ACFA says one rail car — the equivalent of approximately two super B trailers — will feed approximately 8,000 head of cattle for one day. There are approximately 1.5 million head in the province, meaning the industry requires more than a 100 unit train every day to replace the barley and wheat that would normally be sourced closer to home.

#Canada #SupplyChain

https://realagriculture.com/2022/01/elevators-working-in-reverse-as-alberta-cattle-feeders-face-increasingly-desperate-feed-shortage/

DC Mayor asks people to “voluntarily ration” food due to supply chain issues, launching a new “Only Take What You Need” campaign.

A troubling sign - we know what comes after the “voluntary” part - and this starts to cast those who are prepared as enemies/hoarders, enemies of the collective.

Cue the CBDCs as ultimate purchase limits…

#SupplyChain #FoodShortage

Shippers Cut Off Russia - Wheat Price Explodes - Cyberattacks on Shipping

As Major shipping companies are cutting service to Russia and UK bans shipments from Russia, the disruption to global food supply is now a lasting one. What effect will cutting out the breadbasket of the world have, and--more importantly--who benefits from doing so? Christian breaks it down in this Ice Age Farmer broadcast.

via @iceagefarmer

https://www.iceagefarmer.com/2022/03/01/shippers-cut-off-russia-wheat-price-explodes-cyberattacks-on-shipping/

Youtube: https://youtu.be/S86VxWYmwG4

#iafvideo #russia #ukraine #wheat #shipping #SupplyChain

UK: Brit shoppers 'face fruit, veg and cheese shortages' after P&O ferry cancellations

Brits could face shortages in supermarkets with vegetables, fruit, cheese and wine among products not arriving after P&O suddenly cancelled services. After the firm axed 800 of its staff fresh fears have emerged that thousands of sheep may also have to be slaughtered.

Edward Adamson, a sheep farmer from County Antrim in Northern Ireland, said he may have to kill some sheep if the ferry crisis continues.

"There is no route to the UK mainland for us otherwise. We produce more animals than we need you see and we can't just keep them," he said, reported The Sun.

#WarOnMeat #WarOnFarms #SupplyChain #UK

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brit-shoppers-face-fruit-veg-26506021