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Re: Coastal shipping = last hope?
Author: Ex-Marinite
Date: 06-16-2020 - 20:11
Pdxrailtransit Wrote:
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> Container ships don't even want to call at the
> Port of Portland. The last container line to call
> T6 home was Hanjin, and they are defunct. Ocean
> shipping is now all about large ships, large
> ports, and as few port calls as possible.
Coastal shipping would be a "niche market" using small ships to haul containers (or railroad cars on barges) to a port to transfer to rail for the domestic trade, rather than rebuilding the NWP or building the Humboldt Eastern.
It would be similar in function to the lumber schooners which served the redwood coast before the NWP existed.
Probably can't compete with trucks, though.
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> Container ships don't even want to call at the
> Port of Portland. The last container line to call
> T6 home was Hanjin, and they are defunct. Ocean
> shipping is now all about large ships, large
> ports, and as few port calls as possible.
Coastal shipping would be a "niche market" using small ships to haul containers (or railroad cars on barges) to a port to transfer to rail for the domestic trade, rather than rebuilding the NWP or building the Humboldt Eastern.
It would be similar in function to the lumber schooners which served the redwood coast before the NWP existed.
Probably can't compete with trucks, though.
