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Feds announce $100M program to cover 50% of shipping steel in Canada by rail and water (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Isn't this also to do with how massive a ship is, so shipping is cheap per container?

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  • [–] 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

    Trains are also massive though

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  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

    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.

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