Thread: Cheap oil is taking shipping routes back to the 1800s
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Default Cheap oil is taking shipping routes back to the 1800s
On Sun, 06 Mar 2016 09:39:57 -0500,
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Sometimes longer is cheaper:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160303-cheap-oil-is-taking-shipping-routes-back-to-the-1800s

I was going to post this myself.

It seems the folks in Panama and Egypt are concerned because they
spent a lot of money upgrading their canals and tolls are dropping.
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