• RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Also some ships gotta go from Ivory Coast to Australia.

      Why is so expensive? Taxes?

        • RNAi [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          No wonder Cairo is a CIA hotspot

          • aqwxcvbnji [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah, the Suez canal is extermely imlportant for the just-in-time-production that dominates our economy, and also a lot of oil passes there. But Egypt also has the largest population of all the Arab nations, and a large cultural influence in the Arab world, so that's a second reason I think.

            • RNAi [he/him]
              hexagon
              ·
              4 years ago

              "Come to Cairo, where you can incite cultural tensions and plan military invasions all in the same place!"

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        the canal charges a fee of around half a million I think

        EDIT: looks like the average was around $300k for 2020 , but it's size dependent so it's probably closer to half a mill for huge ships like this

        • gammison [none/use name]
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          edit-2
          4 years ago

          That's bizarre considering the panama canal costs at most 10 grand for the largest ships.

          edit: I'm wrong, and wow canal fess are fucking complicated holy shit.

          • emizeko [they/them]
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            edit-2
            4 years ago

            that conflicts with what I'm seeing on wikipedia :

            The most expensive regular toll for canal passage to date was charged on April 14, 2010 to the cruise ship Norwegian Pearl, which paid US$375,600. The average toll is around US$54,000.

            • gammison [none/use name]
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              edit-2
              4 years ago

              I think I was looking at the ship length fee, not the tonnage fee that's on top of the ship fee.

              • emizeko [they/them]
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                4 years ago

                I tried to look up the fee structure directly and wow is that shit complicated

                https://www.pancanal.com/eng/op/tariff/1010-0000-Rev17Mar2021.pdf