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Rail is faster than sea and truck but can't do last-mile like trucks and is more expensive than sea. Sea is the cheapest, slowest form and obviously only works
by pchristensen 15y ago
Rail is faster than sea and truck but can't do last-mile like trucks and is more expensive than sea. Sea is the cheapest, slowest form and obviously only works port to port. Truck is fast and flexible but most expensive.
Not sure how the math works out if you have to ship stuff across Siberia, Alaska, and Canada.
- joss82 15y agoBut sea and trucks depends on oil. Rail can easily be electrified and energy consumption is way less than the other two anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_efficiency_in_transportation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_efficiency_in_transportati...
- _delirium 15y agoThere's no land rail connection from Alaska to the more populated parts of North America, so really the choices are ship and road--- the rail connection from Alaska to the rest of the US/Canada happens via a rail barge between Whittier (near Anchorage) and Seattle. But if you're going to send it by sea to Seattle anyway, why not just load up the ships in Russia and not bother with the tunnel? Might change if the long-proposed connection between the Alaskan rail network and the main North American network were ever built.