Food Chain Opportunities

[CaptainAmerica]

This came out today in Fast Company: Map of America's Food Supply Chain.

There is a huge need, laid out on a convenient map, for better food transport.

The food supply chain relies on a complex web of interconnected infrastructure. For example, a lot of grain produced throughout the Midwest is transported to the Port of New Orleans for export. This primarily occurs via the waterways of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

The infrastructure along these waterways—such as locks 52 and 53—are critical, but have not been overhauled since their construction in 1929. They represent a serious bottleneck, slowing down innumerable supply chains nationwide, including that of grain. If they were to fail entirely, then commodity transport and supply chains would be completely disrupted.

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Link to the original study
Link to the publicly available csv database

 

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[MHP368]

Privatize locks 52 and 53 and charge a premium?

edit : looks like trucking spare capacity waxes and wanes , that would probably drive up prices

It doesn't look like the existing rail system could handle increased capacity if it needed to , fairly sure a competing rail line is well outside the purview of most if not all entrepreneurs (and elon just blows right past it and suggest scifi tubes)

but from reading up on the locks themselves it seems like my first gut reaction was right, have the private sector take a crack at it as the olmsted project is nearly 40 years behind schedule and the price is like 3x what was originally estimated.