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Cargo Airships Are Happening

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220 points elidourado | 14 comments | 14 Oct 24 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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voidUpdate ◴[15 Oct 24 13:00 UTC] No.41848119[source]▶
> "But for air freight service, end-to-end delivery takes a week or more, involving multiple parties: in addition to the air carrier and freight forwarder, at both the origin and destination, there is a trucking company, a warehouse, a customs broker, and an airport. Each touchpoint adds cost, delay, and the risk of theft or breakage."

How does an airship solve any of those problems? Its still got to go through customs and such, and still go through local truck delivery

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Thorrez ◴[15 Oct 24 13:21 UTC] No.41848306[source]▶
I'm not sure about how they solve customs, but the picture shows an airship dropping cargo directly off at a warehouse (avoiding trucks).
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1. MichaelZuo ◴[15 Oct 24 14:04 UTC] No.41848726[source]▶
How will the airship and its cargo clear customs at a random warehouse with presumably no staffing of border agents?
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2. patl ◴[15 Oct 24 14:30 UTC] No.41849021[source]▶
Maybe it's still a customs/border facility. It can just be inland now, away from the very expensive waterfront/costal property
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3. closewith ◴[15 Oct 24 14:42 UTC] No.41849132[source]▶
Not that I put any credence into the idea in the article, but for your particular question, the same way it occurs now at airports - bonded warehouses.
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4. ozim ◴[15 Oct 24 14:52 UTC] No.41849231[source]▶
Implementation details /s
5. MichaelZuo ◴[15 Oct 24 14:52 UTC] No.41849238[source]▶
Which airports have bonded warehouses but do not already host customs facilities or agents?

I think that has to come after, not before.

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6. dylan604 ◴[15 Oct 24 14:53 UTC] No.41849247[source]▶
Would that inland facility still have a 100 mile jurisdiction boundary around it as well?
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7. closewith ◴[15 Oct 24 15:14 UTC] No.41849486{3}[source]▶
I don't know if you're aware, but bonded warehouses are customs facilities. The vast majority of goods never pass through a Government customs facility.
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8. withinboredom ◴[15 Oct 24 15:24 UTC] No.41849566{3}[source]▶
Yes, of course, with a grid of these facilities across the country.
9. LaGrange ◴[15 Oct 24 15:51 UTC] No.41849825[source]▶
Easy, put it on a starship instead, and fire it off like a ballistic missile at the target warehouse.
10. DowagerDave ◴[15 Oct 24 16:57 UTC] No.41850567[source]▶
the reason that property is so expensive is because that's where the people are. There's no point in avoiding the biggest cost of air freight - getting goods to consumers who don't live near the limited freight hubs, if you land it in the middle of nowhere and now need to ship by rail or truck AND last mile delivery
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11. MichaelZuo ◴[15 Oct 24 17:21 UTC] No.41850808{4}[source]▶
In which countries are they legally identical, or even mostly identical, to the customs facilities commonly found in international airports?
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12. nickff ◴[15 Oct 24 17:35 UTC] No.41850966{5}[source]▶
I am not the parent, but they did not say bonded warehouses were identical to government customs facilities at airports.

>"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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13. nickff ◴[15 Oct 24 17:37 UTC] No.41850982{3}[source]▶
There are lots of people inland and away from sea ports. Many hubs of industry (such as Wisconsin which makes many mechanics' tools) could take advantage of this if it were available.
14. MichaelZuo ◴[15 Oct 24 17:47 UTC] No.41851075{6}[source]▶
Hence why I also said ‘or even mostly identical’?

If it’s only vaguely similar in fact, then that seems hardly convincing.