{"id":516371,"date":"2010-04-05T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/and-now-its-trains-that-cant-keep-up-with-the-surging-economy-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-05T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:18:00","slug":"and-now-its-trains-that-cant-keep-up-with-the-surging-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/516371","title":{"rendered":"And Now It&#8217;s Trains That Can&#8217;t Keep Up With The Surging Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another datapoint in the pile of evidence that suggests the world&#8217;s transportation system has been caught wholly unequipped to handle the sudden rebound in global trade.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Remember, there have been several stories of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-shipping-rebound-2010-3\">shippers having to scramble to un-mothball ships<\/a>, and recently we noted that in China there are fields of filled-up storage containers that can&#8217;t go anywhere because there aren&#8217;t enough boats).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now in Germany, it&#8217;s the trains.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/business\/0,1518,687291,00.html\">Der Spiegel<\/a><\/em>, Germany is facing a freight train shortage exacerbated by the fact that during the slump, several of the trains were simply left to rust.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, on at least one day last week, 180 trains had to be can celled due to a shortage of railcars.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/20-cities-where-the-recovery-never-happened-2010-3\"><strong>Now see the 20 cities that missed the recovery &gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/and-now-its-trains-that-cant-keep-up-with-the-surging-economy-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/dvfHuvNjnTc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another datapoint in the pile of evidence that suggests the world&#8217;s transportation system has been caught wholly unequipped to handle the sudden rebound in global trade. (Remember, there have been several stories of shippers having to scramble to un-mothball ships, and recently we noted that in China there are fields of filled-up storage containers that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}