Is 2026 The Year That Shipping Goes to Ship?
Added 2026-01-02 22:17:45 +0000 UTCIn this episode, Sal Mercogliano — a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner — discusses the forecast for shipping in 2026.
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I am 73, I have worked in merchant shipping all my life and most of what you have written here is just wrong.
Andrew Craig-Bennett
2026-01-05 01:05:39 +0000 UTCI will have to go back and check the video.
Sal Mercogliano
2026-01-04 16:32:14 +0000 UTCTrump Pearl Harbor’ed Venezuela Saturday January 3rd. Grabbed Maduro and his wife. Trump later on Sat Jan 3rd says he, Rubio and Hegseth are going to run Venezuela. Is this cuckoo? Wasn’t on your or my bingo card? All hail Trump, Emperor of America. If he pulls this off somehow, he will rule supreme but if it backfires into another Iraq, Afghanistan or Ukraine, he will be remembered for being our first and last American Emperor. I’m 70 in 2026 and grew up during the 1960’s and lived through LBJ’s Vietnam 500,000+ American buildup only to see in April 1973 we withdrew in defeat near 10 years later. Bush Sr invaded Panama December 1989. In 1999 when failed peanut farmer President Jimmy Carter had designated to give back the 1914 American built Panama Canal, it only took the Chinese 2006 to 2016 to finance in secret building a deeper and wider 2nd Panama controlled canal made for only super sized container ships mostly built in China. In 2016 this 2nd CCP financed canal was built and China can now skip Western Californian ports and dock in the Gulf and East Coast American ports to reach the near 80% American population and consumers East of our Rockies. Who did Panama allow to run both Panamanian ports, Pacific and Gulf ports? A firm out of Hong Kong now part of CCP controlled mainland China. Anyone go to Google Earth to see for yourself there are two parallel Panamanian canals, our 1914 Teddy Roosevelt Panama Canal that leaks like a sieve and China’s secretly financed and built 2nd Panamanian Canal deeper and wider with huge retention lakes so not to leak like a sieve was built near exclusively to ship Chinese manufactured goods from China to our Gulf and East Coast ports using there CCP built super tankers. Did current Panamanian leaders stick it to America? What do you think? Will the Venezuelans try to stick it to America in the distant future? What do you think? The only US President that ended wars was President “I Like Ike”, Eisenhower. He helped end WW2 and near single handedly ended the Korean North-South conflict. Every other major conflict except Bush Sr’s Kuwait liberation has been an abject failure ie Vietnam 1965 to 1973, Iraq 2003-2010, Afghanistan 9-11-2001 to 9-11-2021 and Ukraine 2014 to 2026. I hope Trump pulls it off but at near 70 I’m also not naive, his enemies in Venezuela will be aligned with our US Democrats to help him fail at every turn. The Dems openly say without Trump J6 couldn’t have happened. I counter without Nancy Pelosi J6 wouldn’t have happened. I only want a healthy, wealthy American nation with Dems and GOP working together but unfortunately every 4 to 8 years whatever party gets in tries to lobotomize the other party. Our two party divide and conquer internal system isn’t healthy anymore, both parties corrupt controlled by special interests and certainly has us Taxpayers heavily in debt.
Jim Carlson
2026-01-04 11:42:07 +0000 UTCAre you planning a video to assess how WGOWS &G Captain etcetera did on their 2024 estimate(s) of what 2025 would hold?
Bill Nelson
2026-01-03 00:57:33 +0000 UTC
