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Article: Ports: Pushing the Tide of Commerce.
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- Plants Sites & Parks
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- August 1, 2000
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In a time when environmental concerns stand beside transportation logistics, seaports and inland waterways re-emerge as realistic options for bulk and heavy-item shipping.
Add to the environmental positives -- commercial shipping generates far less hydrocarbon, carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide emissions -- the decided advantage of affordability. Water-borne vessels can carry tonnage 2.5 times further per gallon of fuel than rail, and nine times further than trucking. Waterway shipping is safer, too; significantly fewer deaths and injuries result from this mode of transportation.
All of which combined explains the continuing viability of water-borne ...
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