[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Adrian Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > With a big enough gauge, the size of the load makes up for the slower >> > speed. The crucial statistic is tonne-miles/man-hour. > >Unfortunately in attempting to raise that to a competitive level by increasing >load size, you can come up against another limit: the size of consignment that >the customer can receive (or the sender can despatch).
Why are you assuming there can be only one customer's load per barge? >> > Also, the bits of the BBR affected actually *are* accessible to barges >> > now, but only at high tide. > >Not quite: they are accessible for periods a little before and a little after >high tide, but at high tide there is insufficient headroom. I didn't say it was convenient or even useful at present, you know. Merely navigable (occasionally). Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
