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I&#x27;m worried. I&#x27;ve been following the Maersk outage.  The world&#x27;s biggest shipping line still hasn&#x27;t fully recovered. Their less automated ports were down for several days. LA and NJ finally came back up about two days ago, but operations are still partially manual and they&#x27;re running longer hours trying to cope.<p>Their most automated port, Maasvlakte II in Rotterdam, is still processing imports only; no exports. Some containers there are stuck in the stacks; they have a list of which containers can be reached. They&#x27;re requiring paper customs forms and a paper commercial release, instead of their usual paperless system.  Earlier, they were so down that the automated cranes could not unload ships.  This is what Maasvlakte II looks like in normal operation. There are no people on the quay at all.  All those cranes and AGVs are automated.[1]<p>Maersk&#x27;s financial side is still down. They&#x27;re not sending out invoices, which means zero revenue. They just announced a price cut, to keep shippers.  Some of their phone and email systems are still down. The booking side is now up, so they can take new shipping orders.<p>This is the first time we&#x27;ve seen real-world outages of this magnitude. It may not be the last.<p>(Where&#x27;s the Flexport guy who posts on here? He has to deal with all these problems. Flexport is a freight forwarder, which means that when something goes wrong with freight they are forwarding, it&#x27;s their problem to fix it.)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zm_rlLyelQo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zm_rlLyelQo</a>