• 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
        ·
        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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      edit-2
      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