Re: potpourri

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From: "Richard and Emily Bell" <rlbell@sympatico.ca>

> Waterborne transport is amazingly cheap.

Indeed. I work for a shipping company. Freight costs for moving stuff
halfway around the globe is of the order of a few percent (1-5%) of the
value of the goods shipped. That means, if there is a similar difference
in
production costs in different places, it is worthwhile to ship the
stuff.
And a few percent differrence is easy to find.

Greetings
Karl Heinz