Not everything is about money and efficiency and not everything need to be delivered immediately.
Since you live in an EU country you should know that the renewed interest in Short Sea Shipping is about emission of both particles, SOX, NOX and greenhouse gasses. not just that it is cheaper, safer and cause less road congestion on already crowded highway and streets.
America runs on grease and the color of grease is GREEN. That is, Green like the Dollar Bill.
No one in the USA with the power to change anything is giving a hoot about SOx NOx or any of that silly environmental socialist trollup coming out of the EU.
At least not until Washington, DC or maybe the Hamptons, sinks below the rising seas.
Short Sea ain’t cheaper or faster in the US market, and will not be for the foreseeable future. Game Over.
I’m afraid I have to agree with you there. Any long term planning is not likely when everything rotate around a 2-year election cycle and quarterly earnings.
Meanwhile I’ll be investigating the possibilities that arises from the steadily warming of the climate in Norway. At least 2 m. above present HWS level of course. I’ll stick to things Maritime though.
Vineyards have already been established along a fjord near here and bananas is too cheap from Iceland already.
I really hope you aren’t serious.
Oh absolutely.
This radical plot to undermine the heritage of our country being foisted upon the upstanding citizenry by unelected pointy-headed elitists is among the most vital threats to the rule of law and decency in Amur’ca.
At least I was told this on the Internet, so I know it is true.
The first company that comes to mind that does work similar to this is Coastal Transportation in Seattle. http://www.coastaltransportation.com/ from what I read about them they have their own facility in seattle and they have their own facility somewhere up in Alaska. Seems like all of their cargo is palletized, and they bring goods up to alaska and bring fish back down to seattle.
And a number of tug companies have cargo runs the as well. There’s no way into Western Alaska other than by boat so that isn’t really on topic for this thread.
An ideal vessel type for the West Alaska trade??:
https://norlines.no/content/documents/Skip/Kvitnos.pdf
Here is a short video of her handling cargo in Tromsø:
Her sistership, the Kvitbjørn in Cuxhaven, Germany:
The high cost of handling cargo in US ports has been mentioned as a reason Short Sea Shipping is not feasible in the US.That the Longshoremen’s Union is resisting all attempts to modernise ports has also been and issue of contention.
This may not directly involve SSS, but it does say something about the conflict there is between efficient ports and the unions:
