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3/27/2016

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3/21/2016

Hear The Watchmen - March 18-20 Dallas

A Tale Of Two Droughts:
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Government Smarts?
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Resources For USA Prepares - March 14th

3/14/2016

Hear The Watchmen - March 18-20 Dallas

A Tale Of Two Droughts:
California
Texas

Financial:
Insolvency Leads To....
Chinese Exports Down A Quarter
How To Bubble Housing
Buffet Bankruptcy

Employment:
1,250 Can't Keep On Truckin'
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Gone
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The Quantum Cloud
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Go Upload Yourself

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The Energy Nazis Are Coming
Edit And Delete
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Resources For USA Prepares - March 11th

3/11/2016

Hear The Watchmen - March 18-20 Dallas

A Tale Of Two Droughts:
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Walmart's Problem

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Resources For USA Prepares - March 7th

3/7/2016

Hear The Watchmen - March 18-20 Dallas

A Tale Of Two Droughts:
California
Texas

Financial:
Global Shipping Has NOT Stopped
The Viking Age
Affordable Canadian Housing
Real Or Paper?
Sports Authority Strikes Out

Employment:
The Latest BS
Earnings Drop
80% Were....
Waiters Vs. Manufacturing
According To Tax Withholdings....
Is It 1.8 Million...
Or 6 Million

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The Skinny On Fat

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Property Taxes

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Government Smarts?
Climb Every Hill - Not!

Global Shipping Has NOT Stopped

3/6/2016

It amazes me how the lack of a few minutes of research leads to bad information being spread over and over.

It all started with:

This article from January 11th on Zero Hedge

Before the first map you'll see this sentence - "We aren’t experts on shipping, however, so if you have a better site or source to track this apparent phenomenon, please let us know."

Well, you don't have to be experts in shipping, but you do have to understand the map you're looking at, and that is the heart of the problem.

The assumption is that the map is showing position of ships based on satellite data. Bad assumption. The map is showing AIS (Automatic Identification System) data from LAND BASED receivers at ports.

If you peruse this AIS Wikipedia article, you'll learn a couple of things.

One is in the "Viewing and Using AIS Data" section and states that satellite data is usually supplied at a cost. The other is the range of the system - in the "Development History" section, under "Satellite Based AIS" you'll discover the horizontal (land/sea) range is about 74 km (46 mi), and the vertical (satellite) range is 400 km.

So once a ship is out of range of a land based receiver, they will disappear off these free internet maps. You will however see ships near islands like The Azores in the Atlantic and Hawaii in the Pacific.

If you want to see the full picture (satellite data), be prepared to open your wallet -
www.marinetraffic.com is only $365 per month (billed annually @ $4,380 / yr)

The transportation industry is suffering enough as it is. Saying that global shipping has stopped is overstating how bad things really are (at least for now).

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John Ragan

Note: All links were working as of article posting - March 6, 2016

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