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To: AllansAlias who wrote (58790)1/17/2001 4:32:16 PM
From: No Mo Mo  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258
 
Well,

I read a comparison of the time needed to offload a cargo ship ~ 30 years ago and now. Before containerization it took something like eight men, seven days to empty the boat. Now a crew of two can do it in something like one day. I'm ballparking the #'s and don't have the link handy.

Assuming eight hour days that's: 448 hrs vs. 16.....96% improvement.

-Darin