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On Mon, 8/25/14, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] expected ship traffic
 To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Monday, August 25, 2014, 9:14 AM

 On Aug
 25, 2014, at 7:54 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 wrote:

 >
 > It's not a question of of monster
 ships vs 200dT ships.
 >
 > It's a question of mostly ships up to
 1000dT's w/ a few going higher, may be even as high as 
 20KdT's.
 >
 > And
 it's every 10 weeks in *some* systems, but more (even
 *much* more) in some systems & even less in others.
 > And that applies to not only the 3I but
 the TU in general.

 If you
 are doing "much more" trade along a route with
 multiple 20KDton ships, one 200KDton Dt ship will handle the
 trade and be more profitable.

 --
 Bruce Johnson

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That would eventually produce  a monopoly situation wouldn't it?

One really big ship eventually servicing a route much less frequently where all others have been squeezed out?

So then some polity/polities decide they want something better & set up a 'subsidized' route & then the really big ship doesn't pay so well & then....

Maybe that's where the various 'subsidized'-type ships fit in?

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