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To maritime transit times we need to add the number of days the ships lie anchored off-shore waiting their turn to be unloaded at the port facilities. There is often an oceanic parking lot off of Houston and Galveston for example.
This rail proposal is cool but ain’t very likely to happen.
I should not reply to old threads, dang it.
There are queues to port, but there is also significant unloading time for trains as well.
It takes time for multiple trains to move their containers from railcar to truck, just as it takes time for vessels to move their containers from shipboard to truck.