Shipping
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Long-range aviation, shipping, and chemicals will remain hydrocarbon-based for decades
“Fast aircraft, big aircraft, long, long range aircraft, hydrocarbons. Probably long range shipping would stay that way. Like LNG, it's just so cheap. It's gonna stay that way for a long time. Paints are gonna stay hydrocarbon based. Chemicals, pesticides, herb…”
Abbott: 1-2 day shipping requires a CDN for physical goods
“And really the only way to get to fast shipping is Almost like building a CDN for the physical world.”
Loo: Shipping accounts for about 3% of global emissions
“Shipping as a sector contributes about three percent to global emissions. And so in the large scheme of things, that's not a lot, right? It's one gigaton compared to about 40 gigatons.”
Loo: Shipping transports 90% of goods globally
“Shipping is responsible for transporting 90%
Of goods around the world.”
Loo: Maritime shipping relies primarily on heavy fuel oil
“Well, I mean, shipping propulsion of shipping basically relies on fossil fuel, and so this is heavy fuel oil mostly. It's really the bottom, the stuff that you can't distill when you refine fossil fuels and oil and that's what's used in shipping.”
Chandra: Poshmark lost money on early orders by charging $5 for $10.50 shipping
“We launched the app with five dollar shipping at that time, and our cost of shipping was turning out to be 10 dollars and 50 cents on an average. And so we were basically losing money left and right on every order.”
Visioni: Decades of literature showed shipping emissions brightened ocean clouds
“There was a very strong suggestion in the literature for decades about the fact that shipping, ah, was making clouds brighter. Burning from shipping was making clouds brighter, especially over the North Atlantic and in general over the oceans.”
Visioni: IMO 2020 cut shipping sulfate emissions by 7-8 megatons
“But so we, the estimate for now is that there was probably a reduction of around seven to eight megatons of sulfate emitted less from shipping. That's 10% of the overall emissions right now of sulfate from the whole world, from anthropogenic emissions.”
Seven heavy industrial sectors represent one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions
“Steel, aluminum, cement, chemicals, aviation, shipping, and trucking. Add them up, and they represent about a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, and they're the sectors where the existing, fully commercialized, mature, and ready-to-deploy technology wil…”
Evans: E-commerce converged retail rent, shipping, and advertising into one budget
“Retail, rent, advertising, marketing, same day returns, free shipping, free returns. These in the past were all separate budgets. Now they're all kind of the same thing.”
Cataldo: '4-6 weeks shipping' means the product isn't manufactured yet
“So when you like see that as seen on TV and they're like, it's four to six weeks for shipping. It doesn't take four to six weeks of shipping. It means the product hasn't been created yet. And they're just seeing if there's enough interest before they go throug…”