An interesting stat I heard on Reddit and which has the ring of truth: 99% of the cost of international logistics for oceangoing trade happens in port and as a result all distances at sea are basically equivalent desirability (module time-sensitive goods, etc).
“The box” (containers and related industry) really did remake the world as we know it.
“But carbon footprint is…”
Subject to exactly the same logic. If you care about it you should care a lot about what *precisely* happens in ports.
Subject to exactly the same logic. If you care about it you should care a lot about what *precisely* happens in ports.
(I sometimes think people see a really big container ship and a really small hybrid car and assume the first moving across the world contributes more carbon to e.g. a shirt purchase than the second going 10 miles, and I think “Hmm how many OOM is that wrong by. Has to be 2+?”)
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