[Alberta's Child]

Shippers desperate to cover at least some of their costs have slashed prices — the cost of chartering a container vessel has plunged from 2008 highs of $200,000 a day to just under $5,000 a day, according to a July report by brokers JLT Speciality.

Let's anchor them offshore and convert them into prisons.

[zerosix]

Great idea!

That way we can send all illegals and their kin packing on a sea cruise, at the same time!

The old "slow boat to China" route works.

[Shanghai Dan]

Screw that, I figure we can comfortably - COMFORTABLY - set up 400 studio apartments on one. Park that off the coast of San Francisco, pay $150,000 per month for the charter - and charge out $1,200,000 per month for rent ($3000 per month for a studio apartment). Quick money!