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You could also set fees to fix the problem. Dropping off an [empty?] container at the port? Pay $1000. Loading an empty container onto your ship? Get a bonus o
by lostdog 5y ago
You could also set fees to fix the problem.
Dropping off an [empty?] container at the port? Pay $1000. Loading an empty container onto your ship? Get a bonus of $900. Now you have a feedback loop that brings the empty containers back to where they are needed. It's sort of a recycling fee.
- thephyber 5y agoWorth considering how you change the incentives. What truck driver will show up at a US port now that you just made their delivery $1000 less profitable? I’ve heard one of the big asymmetries is how many full containers go Asia->US but how few containers (empty or full) are shipped US->Asia. Probably better to fine the ship company $9999 for each empty space they leave with below some median box capacity, then use those fines as bounty to return empty containers from inland US. The other problem is ownership of containers and chassis. I’m pretty sure there’s a complicated system of ownership and transfer, so it’s not like every container will carry an identical bounty price.
- seoaeu 5y agoEverybody involved is already being paid to get the containers to where they're supposed to go. Plus the specific incentives you suggest seem like they'd discourage any trucks from even coming to the port