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Why not unload it though and transport by rail? The canals were built for a different world, before there were containers and giant ports for offloading. Serio
by mrj 3y ago
Why not unload it though and transport by rail? The canals were built for a different world, before there were containers and giant ports for offloading.
Serious question, surely it's expensive to unload but so is waiting for the canal. For some loads it seems like it'd make sense to bridge the oceans using rail.
- cranky908canuck 3y agoIt could be cheaper than the typical container port, if you can co-ordinate the ships: the Rustbucket Pacific unloads to a train/series of trains that carry the containers to the waiting Rustbucket Atlantic at the other end. No need to sort out destinations at the individual container level. This does mean that you would like to work with the same shipping line at both ends, to address the matching of ship capacities.