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Re:China's $1T Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order by jon_richards on Saturday May 13, 2017 @06:46PM (#14333392)
Container ships are about 2.5 times as fuel efficient as trains. I'm not sure what percentage of total cost that is, but I imagine it is significant.
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Re:China's $1T Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order by kaybe on Saturday May 13, 2017 @08:12PM (#14333615)
The distance is bound to be smaller and offset some of that, no?
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Re:China's $1T Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order by panzer_wyrm on Saturday May 13, 2017 @08:17PM (#14333621)
Trains can also run on electricity. Ships are far away from that.
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Re:China's $1T Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order by jon_richards on Sunday May 14, 2017 @05:32PM (#14337676)
Ships are also incredibly unregulated on the type of fuel they use and their emissions, which, while bad for the environment, lowers the cost significantly.
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