Re: Fleet book [OT]

>On 22 May 98, at 19:06, Jerry Han wrote:
>> > The consignment of FB copies for US distribution is currently in
the
>> > middle of the Big Pond, on a container ship bound for Seattle.
>> Seattle?  No wonder it's taking so long, if they're going the long
way
>> around... (8-)
>> Seriously though, how/why are they being shipped by ship to Seattle? 
(If
>> I can ask without the MIBs visiting me in the middle of the night.
(8-) )
>
>Because that's where the ship's going? If the goods are in a container
>that container
>probably goes (first) to wherever the most cargo on the ship wants to
go
>to. GZG don't
>have any controls on international shipping schedules. And if the next
>ship to say New
>York doesn't leave until a week later, whose to choose?
>
>If you accept that air freighting them would make the price
unacceptable,
>this is the only
>way. The ship they are on is (hopefully) the first available ship
heading
>to North America
>with space, Can't ask much more than that.
>
>I Of course, if you were a /real/ obsessive you'd already have arranged
a
>redeye
>economy class flight to come over and get one by hand :).

Simply, GeoHex are in Oregon - so Seattle makes a lot of sense. The
alternative is to land it on the East coast and have to overland freight
it
all the rest of the way, which I assume is inconvenient and expensive
(and
could well take almost as long).  The bottom line is that GeoHex arrange
the shipping, and if they want them in Seattle than that's where they
go.... :)

Jon (GZG)
>
>
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>				Jon
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