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Yea. For other's reference: a tractor trailer can haul something like ~40 tons and costs ~$4k to go cross country, so shipping costs from mine to fertilizer pro
by jessriedel 3y ago
Yea. For other's reference: a tractor trailer can haul something like ~40 tons and costs ~$4k to go cross country, so shipping costs from mine to fertilizer processor to farm are already going to be in the general ballpark of $100/ton.
- defrost 3y agoMining, as I've known it, uses Haulpak trucks onsite that each carry > 110 tonnes. They fill a train a day (at least), the trains being some 2.4 kilometers in length carrying some 29,000 tonnes that typically travel some 100km from minesite to coastal port. Ship capacities are 380,000 to 400,000 tons deadweight and travel about the globe. "Tractor trailors" (or two to three trailer road trains) as you're describing are used to bring food and supplies and general light goods too and from a minesite. There are such things as economies of scale.
- jessriedel 3y agoFair enough, but the phosphorus has to be delivered to a farm (either before or after being combined into a fertilizer), and that's done with a truck, right? Are you arguing that the total transportation cost of the phosphorus that eventually gets it to the farm where its used is going to be much less $100/ton? Separately, what term other than tractor trailer should I use to sound cool?