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  2. Freight rate - Wikipedia

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    For example, bulk coal long-distance rates in America are approximately 1 cent/ton-mile. [2] So a 100 car train, each carrying 100 tons, over a distance of 1000 miles, would cost $100,000. On the other hand, Intermodal container shipping rates depend heavily on the route taken over the weight of the cargo, just as long as the container weight ...

  3. Dimensional weight - Wikipedia

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    Shipping costs have historically been calculated on the basis of gross weight in kilograms or pounds.By charging only by weight, lightweight, low density packages become unprofitable for freight carriers due to the amount of space they take up in the truck/aircraft/ship in proportion to their actual weight.

  4. Worldscale - Wikipedia

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    Worldscale is a unified system of establishing payment of freight rate for a given oil tanker's cargo. Worldscale was established in November 1952 by London Tanker Brokers' Panel on the request of British Petroleum and Shell as an average total cost of shipping oil from one port to another by ship.

  5. Cost of transport - Wikipedia

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    The metabolic cost of transport includes the basal metabolic cost of maintaining bodily function, and so goes to infinity as speed goes to zero. [1] A human achieves the lowest cost of transport when walking at about 6 kilometres per hour (3.7 mph), at which speed a person of 70 kilograms (150 lb) has a metabolic rate of about 450 watts. [1]

  6. Shipping costs are rising after Red Sea attacks force vessels ...

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    For a 20-foot container travelling from northern Europe to Asia, for example, the firm said it had added $325 onto the shipping cost. Shares in Maersk were up 2.8% by 11.44 a.m. ET. CMA CGM is a ...

  7. Gross tonnage - Wikipedia

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    The gross tonnage calculation is defined in Regulation 3 of Annex 1 of The International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969. [3] It is based on two variables, and is ultimately an increasing one-to-one function of ship volume: V, the ship's total volume in cubic metres (m 3), and; K, a multiplier based on the ship volume.

  8. Freight transport - Wikipedia

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    Global freight volumes according to mode of transport in trillions of tonne-kilometres in 2010. In 2015, 108 trillion tonne-kilometers were transported worldwide (anticipated to grow by 3.4% per year until 2050 (128 Trillion in 2020)): 70% by sea, 18% by road, 9% by rail, 2% by inland waterways and less than 0.25% by air.

  9. Baltic Dry Index - Wikipedia

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    Baltic Dry Index 1985 - 2022. The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) is a shipping freight-cost index issued daily by the London-based Baltic Exchange.The BDI is a composite of the Capesize, Panamax and Supramax timecharter averages.

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