In the newswire dated Monday October 11, 2005 under the heading RR comissioner expects doubling of traffic through Waukesha it is stated that Vancouver, B.C. off loads 1.7 million containers per day and expects that to increase to more than 5 million per day. Is this a typo? I would think that 1.7 million per YEAR would be a more realistic figure. If the 1.7 million per day is correct how many does Long Beach handle per day? Tacoma? Houston? New Orleans (normally)? Jacksonville? Miami? Tampa? Charleston? Baltimore? Philadelphia? New York? Newark?
Well, figuring around 150 containers/train, that means that over 11,300 trains a day would have to depart from Vancouver currently!
1.7 million TEU per year would be the right number. It would be about 2 million TEU per year counting Fraser-Surrey Port as well.
http://www.portvancouver.com/
http://www.fsd.bc.ca/
http://www.portseattle.org/seaport/cargo/container.shtml
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One point seven million of anything is a lot, unless it was gross tonnage. Then it might be too small!
1.7 million containers, stacked 10 deep, would cover over 1200 acres or about 2 square miles. Quite a day’s work[;)]!
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thanx for your responses. As I figured the 1.7 million number per day was a typo. The websites provided by nanaimo 73 were extremely informative.