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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
The US military came up with a better idea. Just take an ordinary steel shipping container

Were you in Afghanistan or Iraq???? I helped build those in Bagram.

10 posted on 11/07/2009 3:48:52 PM PST by MrPiper
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To: MrPiper

Nope, though good job to those that were! However, this use of shipping containers did make some news back here, to those following the action.

FYI, there are over 1 million unused shipping containers outside the Port of Los Angeles alone. They were a big reason the trade deficit with China was so huge. The Chinese made them, but it wasn’t worth it to send them back empty as back haul. You figure, at $30-50k a throw, that really ran up the price tag.


11 posted on 11/07/2009 4:11:14 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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