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Turbineguy

(37,295 posts) Tue Aug 13, 2013, 12:06 PM Aug 2013

Some possibly interesting facts about ocean shipping

Almost 90 percent of everything we buy arrives via ship, writes Rose George in her actually mind-blowing new book Ninety Percent of Everything, published tomorrow, which covers her months-long adventure with the shipping industry — the biggest business that you know nothing about

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2013/08/shipping-industry-bigger-you-can-imagine/67566/

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Some possibly interesting facts about ocean shipping (Original Post) Turbineguy Aug 2013 OP

shipping = oil valerief Aug 2013 #1

Rising fuel costs will bring an end to this. bvar22 Aug 2013 #2

valerief

(53,235 posts)

1. shipping = oil

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Tue Aug 13, 2013, 01:01 PM

Aug 2013

bvar22

(39,909 posts)

2. Rising fuel costs will bring an end to this.

Reply to Turbineguy (Original post)

Tue Aug 13, 2013, 02:16 PM

Aug 2013

Sooner of later, we will have to start making stuff here at home again.

In 1992, Ross Perot said that when Wages & Benefits for the American Working Class fall to 3rd World levels, manufacturing will return the USA.
Looks like he was right.

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