The Economies of Scale in Shipping
December 20th, 2007 | by admin |The oceangoing ships that are used for the shipping of goods all over the world are among the most massive vehicles ever constructed by man. These vehicles necessarily need to be gargantuan in order to greatly reduce the cost of moving large numbers of items. With the larger ships, the cost of moving a ton of goods on a trip halfway around the world might even amount to tiny fractions of a single cent. If you were to move items by truck the same theoretical distance, tens of thousands of dollars per ton might be for fuel costs, not counting the complications involved with crossing borders.