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Russia-China Trade Imbalance Leads To 150,000 Empty Containers Piling Up In Russia (www.marineinsight.com)

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[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Looks like Russia gets to experience what the US has been experiencing for decades lol

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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)

[–] Ooops@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We are talking about trade here, so compare them by economies instead of population. Puts Russia into perspective every single time...

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Touché, I was just thinking in terms of volume if we're comparing sheet number of containers

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Would they even stack up to California in terms of economic activity?

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