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Shipping is massively fuel efficient, and enjoys economies of scale Food is built into the cost of the cruise itself. Mishaps are insured, and relatively rare
by Fomite 12y ago
Shipping is massively fuel efficient, and enjoys economies of scale
Food is built into the cost of the cruise itself.
Mishaps are insured, and relatively rare. Insuring ships is a very old industry.
- IanDrake 12y ago>Shipping is massively fuel efficient That's interesting. >Mishaps are insured The cost I was thinking of was the bad PR. Ships running aground with people dying, mass strandings at sea with people living in squalor unable to flush toilets, and general sickness run wild.
- Fomite 12y agoShips and trains are the most fuel efficient ways to transport things - and things include people. In terms of the bad PR, I confess I'm biased - I'm an epidemiologist, with a fondness for GI infections, so norovirus is near and dear to my heart. But cruises have good marketing, the failures like that are relatively rare on a mass scale, and it's a cheap vacation that feels like luxury to people.