On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 07:37:58AM -0700, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:
> I believe that 1000dT J2 merchantman could handle the trade from
> Oz'.  About 280-300 trips/year.

By Oz you mean Australia?  According to Ports Australia, our sea trade
for 2012-2013 was 1.1 billion tonnes.  So you're wrong by a factor of
roughly a thousand.

> And that's *If* such a trade could really be sustained in the TU,
> which I doubt as, unlike the Earth the TU is not bound by an upper
> TL limit of 8 or 9. Which I believe changes things quite a bit.

Given the canonical prices, wages, and TL disparities - no, if
anything the TU should see more trade than MT ever envisaged.

- Tim