Over this summer, New York port has congestion issues. Now Oakland port with truckers upset blocking the facility of the terminal fed-up with union workers and 7 to 9 hours delay to retrieve their equipment (chassis & containers).
Shippers' container shipping are booked to meet sailing schedules & time sensitive purchases. Delays in releasing the equipment, not only impact the truckers, but the forwarders & shippers alike. Terminals with older infrastructure, labor force composed with Union workers and a slow convoluted legislation process exacerbate what is felt across our nation ports. Other problems were reported with rail ramp terminals for intermodal (the linking of an inland terminal / rail-head to the port of departure) shipments involing landlock origin or destination also have equipment & over the road problems.
Take a look at the etymology of the word ship, a Wikipedia Source
Notation and terminology
"Ship" and its derivatives in this context have since then come to be in wide and versatile use. "Shipping" refers to the whole phenomenon; a "ship" is the concept of a fictional couple;
to "ship" a couple means to have an affinity for it in one way or another; a "shipper" is somebody significantly involved with such an affinity, and so forth. Some of the terminology used in Shipping fandom is as follows:
Ship= The relationship between two or more characters
Sailed Ship= A Ship that you once supported but don’t anymore
Crack Ship= A ridiculous Ship, or one that can or else should never happen
Ghost Ship= A Ship that you once supported and perhaps still do that went down in the ocean, drowning all on board (basically, a hopeless relationship)
Canon= True to the story
Cannonball= An abrupt, painful happening in a fandom that hits you like one
Shore= A happy ending to a Ship (Ships almost always go out into the waters again, but it’s nice to rest here for a while)
Storm/Seastorm/Tidal Wave/Anything else related to this= Problems faced by the Ship
Thunder= Implications of an upcoming storm
Slash= A gay relationship
Cargo= Moments or other implications that a Ship is canon (true to the story), or else cute exchanges between the characters involved in a Ship
Pirate= A person who attacks other Ships, perhaps to steal cargo, or because of vengeance—whatever reason, they try to shoot down your Ship
Breaking the bottle= What got you Shipping them
OTP= Short for "One True Pairing"—by deeming a Ship your OTP, you have declared that you have really strong emotions for it, perhaps that you feel that the characters involved in that relationship are meant for each other above all other relationships you may put them in
Shark= Anyone or anything that flocks to your Ship at the first hint of blood—at the first hint of some slight wound in your Ship—and tears it apart for this
Stranded= Either stuck without a Ship, or afraid to Ship again so you’re avoiding pairings
Passenger= A person who Ships a certain couple
Getting on board= Beginning to Ship something, about to Ship something, etc.
Various naming conventions have developed in different online communities to refer to prospective couples, likely due to the ambiguity and cumbersomeness of the "Character 1 and Character 2" format. The most widespread appears to be putting the slash character (/) between the two names ("Character1/Character2"). Other methods include: using a word
that describes the relationship between, or something involving both characters
and adding the word "Shipping" to it (e.g., MartyrShipping to refer to the relationship between Ivypool and Hollyleaf from the Warriors series, because both suffered a great deal for their beliefs) like the ?Shipping method, only by adding the word "Heart" to the end of the word that describes their relationship using the letter X in place of the slash("Character1XCharacter2") putting characters' names in CamelCase ("Character1Character2") abbreviating both names (usually taking only the first letter of each, with additional letters used if necessary to avoid two or more couples in the same fandom sharing a name) ("Ch1/Ch2") using the initials of either the characters' first names or their full names
("CC" or "C1C2") forming a portmanteau from the names of the two participants (e.g., "Brangelina", when the names of the characters are "Brad Pitt" and "Angelina Jolie"); this is
common mostly within fan communities of anime in emulation of the naming conventions for couples used in the equivalent Japanese fandoms. (e.g., IchiHime in Bleach, or NaruSasu in Naruto). using portmanteaus are especially popular among soap opera fans, who use them to describe existing couples as well as couples that they would like to see together, or that they feel should reunite. Some examples are from one of the most popular soap operas General
Hospital. Some current GH ships are: Lante (Lulu/Dante), Krithan
(Kristina/Ethan), Jolivia (Johnny/Olivia), JaSam (Jason/Sam), Spixie (Spinelli/Maxie), CarJax (Carly/Jax), and Niz (Nikolas/Elizabeth). Generally, though, it can be applied to movie and TV couples as well: Romione (Ron/Hermione), Merthur (Merlin/Arthur), Delena (Damon/Elena), Stelena (Stefan/Elena), LoVe (Logan/Veronica), Clois (Clark/Lois), Swanthief or
Swanfire (Neal/Emma), Chair (Chuck/Blair), Caskett (Castle/Beckett), etc..using
codes for the character names that can be used in shipping. For example, according to Japanese wordplay, Takeshi Yamamoto can be represented by the number 80 and Hayato Gokudera by the number 59, thus the Reborn! pairing is referred to as "8059". using 'titles/nicknames' for pairings. For example, in the anime/manga Prince of Tennis, Shuichiro Oishi and Eiji Kikumaru play together as a doubles team for tennis and as known as the "Golden Pair" for their talent, thus they are also called the "Golden Pair" when referring to them as a pairing. Another example is the series Young Justice, where shippers refer to Artemis and Kid Flash as "Spitfire" because of a comment made by Dr. Fate, telling Kid Flash to find his own "little spitfire". using the template '?A?R' or '?A?L' (the A standing for 'and', and the R standing for 'romance', or the L for 'love'), inserting the first letters of characters names filling the '?s'. These unique examples come from the Invader Zim fandom, "ZADR" for example standing for Zim and Dib Romance, and the Pokémon fandom, "AaIL" meaning Ash and Iris Love. Some fandoms have evolved unique trends in their shipping notation. The Pokémon, Harry Potter and Yu-Gi-Oh! fandoms have specific semi-descriptive names corresponding with their ships. The Pokémon fandom was the first to develop specific names for pairings that ended in the term "shipping," and this development happened shortly after the term "shipping" was coined. One of the earliest specific "shipping" names that was coined was rocketshipping, referring to the pairing of Jessie and James, characters who are both members of Team Rocket. Following that, other pairings within the fandom were named, for example Ash/Iris is referred to as Negaishipping, and Advanceshipping refers to Ash/May
which refers to May's debut appearance in the Advance Generation arch in 2002, which spanned of about four seasons. The Harry Potter fandom has taken this a step forward and uses puns on the naval ship/fandom ship linguistic duality in the form of "HMS foobar". The Saiyuki fandom has a system by which each of the main characters is assigned a number corresponding with their name, and a ship could be referred to as "1X5" or "2X4" (a similar notation system is in use among Gundam Wing yaoi enthusiasts).
The "Twilight" as well as the The Hunger Games fandom have multiple canon ships that result in conflict within the fandom. The construction of the novels has a female lead that can be vicariously projected upon while the story leads to a climatic romantic decision between the two male leads.[7] This results in a polarized fandom where each side describes their
preferred choice as a "team". In Twilight these are "Team Jacob" and "Team Edward". In The Hunger Games, these are Team Peeta and Team Gale.
Have fun shipping.
