I’m looking at the map about the strait of hormuz, I’ve looked up what made it so important and I still don’t get it. I thought that the reason there is so much conflict over it, was that I assumed it looked like it was a very integral passageway for ships to get in and out of. But looking at the map again, it only goes straight to into Kuwait.
What am I missing here? Couldn’t the ships just, not bother with that part and route through elsewhere?
Liquid is heavy. Just comparing freight weight capacity, a 777 can carry around 100 tons, while a large freight ship carries 200,000 tons. That’s a container ship, not an oil freighter, but you see the difference. We move things that can’t take weeks to ship on a plane and pay more for it, while boat shipping is cheap if you can wait for it. And for oil there (usually) is a long queue of ships coming and going, so it doesn’t matter about the time.
Just fly 2,000 777’s
Boeing hasn’t built that many yet since it first became available.
Sounds like a demand problem
Yeah, they’re 2500 orders behind.
Just make 2500 more
Go ahead and email them, let them know they need to make the planes faster. I’m sure they’ll appreciate your consulting advice. Contact Airbus too, they have the same issue.
I’m british, we made concorde. We made a plane faster than the 777
I concur, it was faster than a 777. Everything is made with characteristics that fit its purpose.
Looking back at the problem, you say just build more. A 777 carries about 100 tons. The total for shipping crude oil averages around 2.5 billion tons. The world’s existing capacity for shipping oil is around 670 million, a rough number since there are various sizes of tankers. The 2000 777s (if that would even work) would replace one ship, not all those ships (thousands of them). You just don’t understand the scale.