Sujet : Re: The Destruction of Farms by Encroaching Cities.
De : jeffl (at) *nospam* cruzio.com (Jeff Liebermann)
Groupes : rec.bicycles.techDate : 12. May 2024, 19:16:04
Autres entêtes
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On Sun, 12 May 2024 15:46:21 GMT, Tom Kunich <
cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:
The cheapest form if overland transport is the railroads. So WHY are we shipping foods long distance on trucks?
Do you know of a train that can cross an ocean?
The reason trucks are popular for shipping food is that they don't
need to be loaded and unloaded from the carrier multiple times. With
a truck, you go from point to point. With an ocean along the route,
you need to unload the container from the truck, load it onto a
container ship, sail to a port, load the container on a truck, and
drive it to the destination. If you're shipping food, the added
delays will cause the food to rot or require additional refrigeration.
For shipping within the USA, just replace the container ship with a
railroad and end up with little or no benefit.
There's some benefit to rail if you use rail transport where the
container and the truck trailer move as a unit, saving some handling
time and labor.
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https://www.aar.org/issue/freight-rail-intermodal/>
Map of the world showing only container vessels:
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https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-25.6/centery:22.6/zoom:3>
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