How container ship work ?
The first 500 people to use the link in the description get their first two months free. This is the Cavendish banana. Or, for most of the world, just “banana”. Because this one species accounts for 99% of exports, and is bought more than any other item at the grocery store. Walmart’s bread and butter isn’t actually bread or butter, but bananas. And it’s one of the most important crops in developing countries, along with staples like rice, corn, and wheat.If u need container, you may rent it here Which makes sense, Bananas are nutritious, conveniently packaged by nature, and, dirt cheap. In the United States, bananas cost an average of just 56 cents a pound. Roughly 19 cents each. Cheap enough that Amazon just gave them away in Seattle. And that’s from a company which… literally sells air. Oranges, in comparison, cost just over two dollars a pound. Strawberries, three thirty-four, and apples, a dollar sixty-two. The difference is, bananas are picky. They require extremely rich soil, protection from the wind, and lots of water. They can really only grow in this narrow region - about 30 degrees north or south of the equator. That eliminates Europe and most of the United States, give or take a volcano and alligator. So, if you live here, in the banana belt, a country like Brazil, India, or China, your bananas are grown locally. For the rest of us, they’re imported from Central and South America - usually Ecuador, Guatemala, or Costa Rica. Apples, on the other hand, take what they can get. They survive in many types of soil, and withstand both cold winters and warm summers, with not one, but thousands of different varieties. So, why after being shipped 3, or 4, or 6 thousand miles away are bananas still cheaper than apples grown a few blocks away? The answer is, largely: the container. The story of the banana and 90% of everything we buy is that of the container ship, and how it forever changed the global economy. But first, let’s rewind. There are many ways to get goods from one place to another. Planes are fast, trucks are precise, and trains are efficient. But water is by far the cheapest. There are no roads to build, or intersections to stop at, and once a ship starts moving, it requires very little attention. Some of the biggest container ships in the world are manned by just 13 crew members. And companies like Rolls-Royce are developing self-driving versions as we speak. The problem, until recently, was moving cargo onto and off of the ship, which often took even more time than actually sailing. That’s because workers had to lift, carry, and drag everything from barrels, to crates, and heavy bags. Not so fun. And not very fast. A journey from New York to Europe, for example, might only take 12 days, but loading and unloading would take another 7. That’s 7 full days it could’ve spent delivering more cargo. Therefore, 7 full days added to the cost of shipping. Port fees, dock workers, and their equipment accounted for 60-75% of the cost of shipping. So, by the time a product reached our shelves, its price would have to be raised an average 12% to make up for it. But everything changed with the container. Companies realized they weren’t in the business of shipping bananas, or cars, or phones, They were in the business of… shipping. What’s inside the box shouldn’t matter, their job is generic, efficient transportation. In fact, today, crew members don’t even know most of what they’re carrying. If shipping companies could take everything and put it in a single size box, they could turn thousands of individual problems into just one: How to move a known object from one place to another as quickly as possible. If you’re a longshoreman, this is your worst nightmare. Your job, and in many cases, whole coastal economies, were now based on a repetitive, low-skill, and easily automated task. Unions, of course, fought back. At one point, a workers’ strike lasted 83 days. But the universal law is money finds a way.