(cont'd from yesterday's post)
The bottleneck is creating delays for customers waiting to get their purchase. To ease customer disappointment, exercise equipment company Peloton plans to spend $100 million just on transportation including air shipments in the first half of this year. Expenses like these may raise retail prices. Small retailers can't afford air shipments.
Average size of these container ships is also growing bigger, so they carry more containers. The ship below is the largest on the seas, a quarter-mile long and capable of carrying up to 21,000 containers each of which is about 20' by 8' by 8.5' in size. Each of those boxes in the photo is about the size of a twenty-foot room.
Picture a ship like this in a storm at sea.
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