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I can envision intermodal commercial use cases. Airships could lift a group of containers from a ship, while at sea, and deliver them to inland marshaling yard
by labcomputer 4y ago
I can envision intermodal commercial use cases. Airships could lift a group of containers from a ship, while at sea, and deliver them to inland marshaling yards. That would skip port bottlenecks as well as truck/train transport from, for example, Los Angeles to Chicago. The improved economics of unloading containers as a group, instead of one by one alone might make it worthwhile.
- nradov 4y agoDoubt it. A huge airship would be needed to lift multiple shipping containers. It would be cheaper to expand the ports and lay more rail lines.