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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by futuremodal [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by futuremodal Save your transportation creativity for the trucking or barge industries, you'll reap more of the deserved awards. [/quote] Barges and creativity.......I was unaware of the great technological breakthroughs that have been made in the shallow draft maritime industry. [/quote] What I am stating is that the trucking and maritime industries are more receptive and supportive of new concepts from outsiders. The "great technological breakthroughs" in the barging industries are admittedly rather mundane, but they do follow through on implimenting viable ideas in an expedient fashion, thus if you or anyone has an idea that might benefit them, you are more likely to be benefitted in a reciprocal sense than if you offered a new idea to the railroad industry. [/quote] I would say that the maritime industry and RRs about about the same in that regard. Advances in shipbuilding, such as those in RRs that improve efficiency and economy are approached in much the same manner...cost to incorporate versus cost of not doing so or potential savings/profit of doing so. Ships aren't generally interchanged, and as such virtually no two are exactly alike. Many of the improvements were not done as a result of good nature or profitablity (other than litigation) but as a result of regulation, ie double hulled tankers. Maritime companies flag their ships for Panama or Liberia to avoid the safety/crew/eco requirments required of US and many European flags, unless they have no choice. They suffer from the same inertia as RRs. [/quote] I can't speak for the major ocean carriers, I can only expound on my own experiences with certain domestic maritime outfits. I do know that you may see a resumption of the LASH concept in maritime lanes running between China and the Pacific Northwest. There is so much potential for inland to inland trade in those lanes ie. bypassing expensive and congested deep draft ports on both coasts by running direct between inland barge ports using LA***echnology.
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