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<blockquote data-quote="Wally" data-source="post: 5984883" data-attributes="member: 46212">The whole thing is really about automation. Those jobs are going to be toast, Look at the foreign ports. You still will need truck drivers though.This is from the Washington Post:...Today, the shipping industry is at the forefront of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/supply-chain-issues/?itid=lk_inline_manual_8" target="_blank">a second revolution</a>. It is now possible to run a dockyard with almost no humans present. The two key jobs — operating cranes and moving containers around — can be automated. Cranes pick up the heavy containers from the ships and sort them on shore. Then trucks carry the containers from the dock to wherever they need to go next — a railroad or trucking hub or storage facility. People are needed to oversee things, but their role is now more akin to air traffic control. Maintenance and IT jobs also remain. But the bottom line is: Fewer workers are needed...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wally, post: 5984883, member: 46212"] The whole thing is really about automation. Those jobs are going to be toast, Look at the foreign ports. You still will need truck drivers though. This is from the Washington Post: [I]...Today, the shipping industry is at the forefront of [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/supply-chain-issues/?itid=lk_inline_manual_8']a second revolution[/URL]. It is now possible to run a dockyard with almost no humans present. The two key jobs — operating cranes and moving containers around — can be automated. Cranes pick up the heavy containers from the ships and sort them on shore. Then trucks carry the containers from the dock to wherever they need to go next — a railroad or trucking hub or storage facility. People are needed to oversee things, but their role is now more akin to air traffic control. Maintenance and IT jobs also remain. But the bottom line is: Fewer workers are needed...[/I] [/QUOTE]

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