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philwelch on March 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Live ships map

It's not that silly when you work it out. You have a ship holding 2-3 million barrels of oil and a 20-40 crew. It looks like the market price of light sweet crude varies by as much as $1 per barrel per day. Which means a difference of 2-3 million dollars if you come to port today instead of yesterday.

twelvechairs on March 9, 2012 [–]

Not silly in that sense. Silly in the pragmatic sense that expensive ships spend considerable amounts of time doing nothing...

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