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Being on an island, it seems like loading it on a barge would be more efficient.
by indoordin0saur 2y ago
Being on an island, it seems like loading it on a barge would be more efficient.
- Damogran6 2y ago'loading it on a barge' doing a lot of heavy liftin there. (heh)
- jamesfmilne 2y agoDoes it have a harbour with sufficient cranes to offload it, and a good enough road to transport it out? And if you're going to need 4 trucks to get it out of the port anyway, might as well just drive it there. Sorry, no idea why I'm debating some random person on the internet about an issue which has absolutely no impact on me whatsoever. Sport, I guess.
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoIt's a pretty big governance fail to have a single point of failure for access to an island.
- ahmeneeroe-v2 2y agomore of a cost vs benefit tradeoff than a failure. It could also be just a SPOF for over-sized loads, whereas people have multiple routes on/off island.
- xattt 2y agoThere is redundancy in the form of a 90 minute Ro-Ro ferry route to the east, as well as mothballed docks near the bridge in case of an incident that closes the bridge completely. I’m not sure about the capacity for oversized loads on the ferry, but it’s often used by trucks to carry gravel and aggregate for construction.
- xattt 2y agoThere really isn’t a properly craned port per se. The transit time would be just as long, if not longer if it was crossed by barge.