flan [they/them]

From the 1750’s until the 1790’s this was the domain of Basque land pirates. Portuguese traders would avoid this route for fear of the Basque pirates, instead opting the longer route to Venice through Gibraltar, along the North African coast, and into Sicilly.

What a knee-slapper

yyyy-mm-dd makes it much clearer about what fucking order things are in

so looking at the actual shipping container data the prices have returned to pre-pandemic levels. Prices peaked at like 7x pre-pandemic levels in 2021 and remained there through 2022, so obviously they’re making a lot less profit now. This seems to be another case of morons in the C suite thinking the gravy train would last forever.