Have you seen a cargo ship though, the train car comtainers on it look tiny, and are stacked above deck like a tower and below decks. Sometimes as much as 10000 to 20000 containers, All going one place.
Trains are 100 containers long maybe, I think it is only 50 in Europe. And have to switch routes to get across the network, and makes delayed stops in trainyards for connection changes .
They just don’t have the same bandwidth as a giant ship.
It’s often cheaper to ship something on a boat and have it travel 15,000km around the continent than it is to send it 3,000km on a train.
Maybe fix the rail industry instead of just putting money in their pocket.
On the other hand it’s significantly cheaper (and more efficient and less polluting) to ship across the country by rail than it is by truck.
Isn’t this also to do with how massive a ship is, so shipping is cheap per container?
The solution? Bigger trains, obviously.
Ships on tracks
That’s a valid point I hadn’t considered.
Trains are also massive though
Have you seen a cargo ship though, the train car comtainers on it look tiny, and are stacked above deck like a tower and below decks. Sometimes as much as 10000 to 20000 containers, All going one place.
Trains are 100 containers long maybe, I think it is only 50 in Europe. And have to switch routes to get across the network, and makes delayed stops in trainyards for connection changes .
They just don’t have the same bandwidth as a giant ship.