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A lot. Not only can container ships carry a fuckton of containers, but investments have also been made in ports throughout the world to load/unload the cargo i
by pm90 6y ago
A lot.
Not only can container ships carry a fuckton of containers, but investments have also been made in ports throughout the world to load/unload the cargo in these ships.
Freight trains might perhaps cater to a niche where they’re faster than ships but slower than airplanes. Or serve as a backup for essential commodities when there are snags with the global trade routes.
But ocean shipping is absolutely bonkers at the scale at which it currently operates. The ships are only getting more massive.
- bombcar 6y agoThe main advantage of a train is that it can go over land, and that the cars can be "humped" without an unload/load cycle which allows a single train from LA serve multiple midwest destinations (by splitting at a common junction). But where boats and barges can operate, they usually win. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_yard#Hump_yard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_yard#Hump_yard