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<blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 3130358" data-attributes="member: 13624"><p>Economies of scale, plus the boat can get up to speed and stay there for almost the whole trip; even trains have to slow down or stop frequently.</p><p></p><p>Information courtesy of my sister, who is a business process consultant and had BNSF as one of her biggest clients. Even they admitted they couldn't compete with sea on price over the long haul. Their big advantages are speed and the ability to service inland terminals. Trucks are faster yet, and even more flexible, and air owns the speed race, at tremendous cost.</p><p></p><p>One of these days, somebody--probably Burt Rutan and Richard Branson--are going to give us suborbital ballistic shipping, and we'll have a new definition of speed...and an even bigger increase in cost.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave70968, post: 3130358, member: 13624"] Economies of scale, plus the boat can get up to speed and stay there for almost the whole trip; even trains have to slow down or stop frequently. Information courtesy of my sister, who is a business process consultant and had BNSF as one of her biggest clients. Even they admitted they couldn't compete with sea on price over the long haul. Their big advantages are speed and the ability to service inland terminals. Trucks are faster yet, and even more flexible, and air owns the speed race, at tremendous cost. One of these days, somebody--probably Burt Rutan and Richard Branson--are going to give us suborbital ballistic shipping, and we'll have a new definition of speed...and an even bigger increase in cost. [/QUOTE]
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