Just to bang on my "CHEAP" drum a bit more, I calculated out what it would cost to keep two tugs on alert 24 hours a day all year under the Golden Gate Bridge. Crowley Marine charges $2760/hour for general tug services. Leaving two tugs on alert 24/7 would cost about $48m.
The Port of Oakland, the largest port in the area, moves around 2.…
Just to bang on my "CHEAP" drum a bit more, I calculated out what it would cost to keep two tugs on alert 24 hours a day all year under the Golden Gate Bridge. Crowley Marine charges $2760/hour for general tug services. Leaving two tugs on alert 24/7 would cost about $48m.
The Port of Oakland, the largest port in the area, moves around 2.2 million TEUs (essentially a measure of a container) annually. If you divided the cost of the tugs out across all the container traffic into Oakland, each TEU would cost about $21 more.
What does this mean for you, the American consumer? Let's look at bananas. Each 40 foot container (2TEUs) carries about 117,000 bananas. The additional cost of $42 (2x$21) for the tugs on site would add $0.00036 per banana.
To further put that into perspective, the recent rebuild of the Bay Bridge cost $6.5 billion to build.
Just to bang on my "CHEAP" drum a bit more, I calculated out what it would cost to keep two tugs on alert 24 hours a day all year under the Golden Gate Bridge. Crowley Marine charges $2760/hour for general tug services. Leaving two tugs on alert 24/7 would cost about $48m.
The Port of Oakland, the largest port in the area, moves around 2.2 million TEUs (essentially a measure of a container) annually. If you divided the cost of the tugs out across all the container traffic into Oakland, each TEU would cost about $21 more.
What does this mean for you, the American consumer? Let's look at bananas. Each 40 foot container (2TEUs) carries about 117,000 bananas. The additional cost of $42 (2x$21) for the tugs on site would add $0.00036 per banana.
To further put that into perspective, the recent rebuild of the Bay Bridge cost $6.5 billion to build.