Freight rail is rarely better than just putting the stuff on a ship. While it may be faster, ships are able to move much larger amounts. Its the same story as freight planes. There’s a reason shipping is responsible for something like 80% of transport worldwide
I though the US had freight rail. Put that shit on trains.
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And that’s assuming it doesn’t just derail.
Panama could open a railroad parallel to the canal and a port on either end…
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the railroad part exists, and predates the canal even!
Freight rail is rarely better than just putting the stuff on a ship. While it may be faster, ships are able to move much larger amounts. Its the same story as freight planes. There’s a reason shipping is responsible for something like 80% of transport worldwide
okay, uh, why haven’t they just made tanker-ship wide trains already?
Because that would require tanker-ship wide rail infrastructure (and tanker-ship tall as wellz which will really challenge the weight-factor)
But Biden said rail was the backbone of America and thus not allowed to strike!