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I wonder how effective this is though? An average container ship has 10,000 6.1 meter long containers. That a lot of carriages and trains.
by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
I wonder how effective this is though? An average container ship has 10,000 6.1 meter long containers. That a lot of carriages and trains.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoSo much manufacturing is moving from China to Mexico that Mexico is now the US' biggest trading partner [1] [2] [3]. As China ages rapidly, labor costs rise, and deglobalization occurs, the future won't be the past of enormous container loads from China eastbound. North American infra is the new hotness [4] [5]. Tangentially, 40% of ship cargoes are fossil fuels [6] [7], consider how that reduces marine traffic volume with the global energy transition underway. [1] https://nypost.com/2023/09/12/americas-biggest-trading-partner-is-now-mexico/ https://nypost.com/2023/09/12/americas-biggest-trading-partn... [2] https://nypost.com/2023/08/08/china-exports-plummet-as-us-firms-turn-away-from-rival/ https://nypost.com/2023/08/08/china-exports-plummet-as-us-fi... [3] https://www.marketplace.org/2023/11/21/with-mexico-the-top-u-s-trade-partner-industrial-real-estate-booms-in-laredo-texas/ https://www.marketplace.org/2023/11/21/with-mexico-the-top-u... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAFTA_superhighway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAFTA_superhighway [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_69 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_69 [6] https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2022/01/12/almost-40-of-all-ship-cargoes-are-oil-coal-and-gas/ https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2022/01/12/almost-40-... [7] https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/rmt2019_en.pdf https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/rmt2019_en...