"It would take seven days for a steamship to travel from Southern California to Northern Florida through the Panama Canal, but Jacksonville port officials say it could be worth the trip"
"It would take seven days for a steamship to travel from Southern California to Northern Florida through the Panama Canal, but Jacksonville port officials say it could be worth the trip"
Excellent!
Yay Florida!
There’s still quite a bit of piracy in the Pacific waters near the canal.
...”steamships”...
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LOL
I hope Florida eats California’s lunch. GO Houston and Nawlins.
So up yours, Newsom.
Biden and his handlers, being the small-minded and vindictive pr*cks that they are, don’t want to give DeSantis, or the state of FL, any credit for resolving this issue so they may reject this plan.
That would be awesome but he has been encouraging them to make the move for sometime now and the ships are still docked in LA...this only tells me they rather float in the water there then making the long trip around in unfamiliar waters!
And how long are the ships waiting to be berthed and offloaded?
These ships off California have been sort of knocking on our front door with no luck. Now they have an invitation to go around to the back and enter there. How could Buttigieg be against that?
I’ve heard that the tolls for large ships to traverse the panama canal are very very expensive, but from what I’ve just read, for freighters it can range from $10,000 to $100,000. This is less than I expected. Considering the number of cargo containers some of these vessels have and the value of the items, it’s probably well worth it to go to Florida.
1. There’s a reason why Florida’s ports have no backlog: They aren’t well positioned to move cargo to the major U.S. cargo destinations in the Midwest and Northeast after the cargo is off-loaded from the ships.
2. Ocean carriers make port calls at terminals where they have contracts in place for handling cargo. If they don’t have a contract in place at a florida port then they don’t go there. Telling a carrier like Maersk to divert to an MOL or Evergreen terminal is like telling a truck driver making a delivery to Walmart to drop his load at Target if the road to Walmart is closed.
the route is wrong on that illustration...
jacksonville is on the northeast side of florida...
not the southwest...
That’s a lot of fuel to burn, ply it will backlog the canal.
Lets get going.
I’d love to see an ariel picture of a line of container ships making their way to Florida.
Good PR stunt but will never happen. Double the distance travelled, double the fuel cost, double the cost of the crew, the ship itself is less productive since it is at sea twice as long per round-trip, and then delays and costs sending empty ships back to Asia. And then, how to get the containers from Florida to their destinations out west?
There is, or at least was, a major shortage of containers in Asia. IIRC we import 5 containers of stuff for every one we ship full back to Asia. This forces shippers to carry empty containers back and someone has to pay the cost. That is in part why it now costs $14k to bring a container across the Pacific and almost double if you want to bring it to the east coast when in 2019 it cost around $2500.
They could send them to Oakland, California. They don’t for many logistical reasons.
I think there is an upper limit to the size of the ships Florida ports can handle, but yeah, this is a great idea. Savannah can handle the largest container ships.
FYI they aren’t backed up but any ship that unloads in Miami will have five and a half to six hours minimum just to get trucked out of Florida.
Savannah isn’t backed up either. It’s still a cheaper port than Charleston. Local Charleston companies have used Savannah for the longest time because of that.
Sure, for those for whom Christmas depends on a bunch of cheap crap from China.