. >>> joining me now from denmark is the ceo of seaintel jens consulting lars jensen.so much for joining us. >> good to see you. >> despite the promise of help from the americans, how likely do you think that this will end soon? >> i would say that with every day that passes right now, the problem is that that simply means we're in a situation ha could take quite a while. i'm sure they're doing everything they can, but if this was easy to get off and refloat, it would have happened already >> and what's stuck in these ships? i mean everything from cars to beer to livestock. what does that mean? >> it means that from a consumer perspective, some of the goods you might have been waiting for, it might be delayed if it's arriving by sea, in some cases maybe a week, maybe two weeks. that's basically the extent of it. perhaps the counterintuitive aspect of this is if you're a consumer, you won't notice any immediate difference. you won't see shelves go dry at the supermarkets. you won't see any lack of goods as such. this is where the counterintuitive part come in. the consu