Yes we need big ships, especially in cargo. The economics of scale are tremendously in favor of bigger ships. This gets at another American infrastructure weakness: our ports can’t handle the bigger ships so we pay more per ton in shipping, loading and unloading because we ship on smaller boats.
Yes we need big ships, especially in cargo. The economics of scale are tremendously in favor of bigger ships. This gets at another American infrastructure weakness: our ports can’t handle the bigger ships so we pay more per ton in shipping, loading and unloading because we ship on smaller boats.
Repeal the d*** Jones Act.