Sujet : Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: How are criminals arrested
De : am (at) *nospam* yellowjersey.org (AMuzi)
Groupes : rec.bicycles.techDate : 24. Jun 2025, 20:49:55
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On 6/24/2025 2:32 PM, cyclintom wrote:
On Mon Jun 23 13:10:21 2025 AMuzi wrote:
On 6/23/2025 12:23 PM, cyclintom wrote:
On Sun Jun 22 11:03:15 2025 AMuzi wrote:
On 6/22/2025 10:38 AM, cyclintom wrote:
On Sat Jun 21 15:12:43 2025 Catrike Ryder wrote:
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Because they depend on the USA's military.
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One very serious problem is that most of the world's freight is moved by a very limited number of container ships so large that it takes high tides and special operations even to turn them around in the port of Oakland. Freight can easily be cut off simply by sinking 20 ships . In WW II we were building a ship a day to keep up with those being sunk.
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Uh no.
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https://www.atlas-mag.net/en/category/tags/focus/the-world-merchant-fleet
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Andrew please read these thing before you post:
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The US flag merchant ships are only 3.27% of the worlds fleet.
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So what?
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US ocean commercial cargo is primarily FL to Puerto Rico &
US possessions and then CA to Hawaii and possessions, due to
the Jones Act.
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And "US Flag" carriers are even a smaller chunk than the
3.27% number. We are not a player in XL container ships.
We're not even a rounding error. Of the 55,000 commercial
vessels in link above, US Flag are only about 180 hulls of
all types in total. Pfffft.
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https://www.bts.gov/content/number-and-size-us-flag-merchant-fleet-and-its-share-world-fleet
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Oh, and your ridiculous "20 ships" fantasy mentioned nothing
about US flag carriers.
My point was that the US cannot move any cargo without the full cooperation of the rest of the world. Container ships are I believe to be mostly Chinese. They are so large that you can only grasp their size in person. The latest containers are, I believe, 56 feet long so they have been building freight cars to suit thius larger siZe. These trains rarely go south now but east. I'm not sure how they get over the Rocky Mountains. They must have six or seven tadem engines on front and two on the back For the coastal range they seldom get over 3 or 4 engines on the fron and 2 on the rear. Switch engines are used only in the yards for pulling empties into place.
Utterly unrelated.
Double stack container trains have been standard for 50 years.
Oh, and ships routinely go around South Africa when there's trouble near Suez. As at this moment.
-- Andrew Muziam@yellowjersey.orgOpen every day since 1 April, 1971
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