Japan Wants To Build A 311-Mile Cargo Conveyor Belt due a lack of truck drivers

Re:Japan Wants To Build A 311-Mile Cargo Conveyor Belt due a... by bee_rider on Monday July 01, 2024 @08:10PM (#40852238)

I wonder how the ratio of people:stuff breaks down WRT boats and trucks. I’d expect trucks to be much more person intensive, but the vagaries of crew sizes and canal widths could throw that off I guess.

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Re:Japan Wants To Build A 311-Mile Cargo Conveyor Belt due a... by lucumo on Monday July 01, 2024 @09:10PM (#40852625)

I quickly scanned the Rhine Regulations for Navigation Personnel. The tables starting on page 49 show minimum crew requirements for types of ships and operating modes: https://www.ccr-zkr.org/files/documents/reglementSTF/RPN_010...

It seems to go from a single boatmaster to crews of less than 10. The smallest container ships for inland shipping are about 30-ish containers; the largest about 500.

A truck can do 2 containers with 1 driver.

So, an inland ship can do 15-30 times as many containers per crew, compared to a truck.

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