Marc Levinson
Marc Levinson
biggest departure expense far land moving ocean process shifting ship train transport truck
By far the biggest expense in this process was shifting the cargo from land transport to ship at the port of departure and moving it back to truck or train at the other end of the ocean voyage.
assume bill country discussion leave others policy seems simply stop
A lot of the policy discussion seems to assume that once this bill is passed, some of the undocumented aliens will simply leave the country and others will stop coming.
deal helped league major port
I think this has been a big deal for Houston. It really helped make the port there a major league port.
across expensive goods halfway less pay ship
Before the container, transporting goods was expensive. So expensive that it did not pay to ship many things halfway across the country, much less halfway across the world.