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The Scottish distillers should just ship whisky in tankers a few million gallons at a time. Much more cost effective.
They should just build pipelines.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/08/bruges-pipe-dr...
https://www.yachtingworld.com/news/could-a-floating-shipping...
This has always worried me when I’ve moved across the ocean (three times). Books, photos, personal items heading over the side of a ship. I know the odds are low but it’s different from a container ipod identical, brand new Phones.
When you move overseas, wouldn't you take anything with sentimental value onboard with you as luggage? I can't imagine being too devastated to lose books or whatever other larger items people take when they relocate overseas (assuming that you would be compensated for the monetary value of lost items and be able to replace them). In my experience, most sentimental items are small enough to easily fit in a suitcase. H…
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Logistics entrepreneur here. I'm keeping that quote! Apparently Robert Hilliard Barrow (1922-2008), USMC four-star general. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
One interesting take I’ve read on that quote is that you need to consider the source. If you’re a general for a country that routinely deploys troops to the other side of the world, in the service that specializes in landing those troops on a hostile beach with no friendly infrastructure, in a milieu when it is no longer considered acceptable to supply your troops by allowing them to pillage the countryside, you are…
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Home by Bill Bryson - not the first thing you might think of but tells fascinating story of Frederick Tudor who spent a fortune in 1840s taking ice from Lake Wenham in New York State and persuading the world you could refrigerate food from America across the Atlantic. With the completion of the Erie Canal, buffalo, cattle and wheat from the Great Plains could arrive in Chicago, be butchered, kept in giant ice warehou…
I see a book by Bill Bryson called At Home: A Short History of Private Life : https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B003F3FJGY/ Is that the one you're talking about? Thanks!
IIRC Frederick Tudor is only one chapter. The rest of the book is also excellent.
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This ship [0] went down offshore of Cornwall in 1641, with 60 men, 100,000 pounds of gold and 500,000 pieces-of-eight aboard. Cornwall is not known to be friendly to wrecks. And yet, nearly 400 years later, she's not been found. They say. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Royal
Okay, who's joining me for an expedition? Finders keepers, right?
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190908-a-shipwreck-worth-b...
In the UK there is some dispute about 'finders keepers' in any case, there was a case last year where a couple of guys got jail time for stealing a hoard
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-50516...
I see ships being overloaded a good problem to have. The more countries trade with eachother, the less reason they have to fight wars with eachother.
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The mate who hit one in a yacht while mid Pacific begs to differ.
I wonder how many other hazards are out there. I have feeling it's small fraction compared to something like tree logs or g*d knows what else.
I see ships being overloaded a good problem to have. The more countries trade with eachother, the less reason they have to fight wars with eachother.
You don't have conflict with people you don't need anything from, usually. It might seem counterintuitive but there's weight to the idea that interdependence increases risk of conflict.
https://www.ship-technology.com/features/featurecargo-overbo...