{"id":11667,"date":"2025-04-30T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=11667"},"modified":"2025-04-30T09:41:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T16:41:34","slug":"are-us-ports-ghost-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/are-us-ports-ghost-towns\/","title":{"rendered":"Are US Ports Ghost Towns?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <em>What&#8217;s Going on with Shipping<\/em> channel on YouTube has a very good video included below refuting some of the clickbait material on social media saying ports are ghost towns. Though, shipping is down, and interestingly, a lot of ships are far below capacity like the one leaving China I captured from the video below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-37-1024x577.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-37-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-37-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-37-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-37.png 1312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image of ship departing China for America, but far from full<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What&#039;s Going on With US Ports? | Are US Ports Ghost Towns? | Is Cargo Sailing from China?\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2GgcIuQ4X5k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The What&#8217;s Going on with Shipping channel on YouTube has a very good video included below refuting some of the clickbait material on social media saying ports are ghost towns. Though, shipping is down, and interestingly, a lot of ships are far below capacity like the one leaving China I captured from the video below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11670,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11667\/revisions\/11670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}