As a matter of curiosity, Wil, can you tell me what would be the transport cost of shipping booze from Regina to Capital or vice versa a) in bulk and b) in bottles?
Hans
Assuming KCr1 per parsec per Td of 10000kg or 14kL (which means no faster than J3), no D/E/X ports, no A/R zoning... about 180Pc. A Td will be 10 tons in this case; the density is high enough to hit that limit, rather than 14kL, and bulk whiskey will hit 11kL; adding tank mass, we get right about 9000kg per Td.
But note that 1L whiskey at 80 proof is about 0.916kg; at 140 proof, about 0.85kg. So, it's mass that's the limit, and we can just round up for simplicity.
180 parsecs was a quick hop check, manually, using travellermap.com. It's not likely to be perfectly accurate.
So 9L in break-bulk per Cr per parsec. 11L in liquid-bulk per cr per parsec. 5L to 7.5L in bottles per Cr per Pc.
180/9= Cr20/L
180/11= Cr17/L
180/7.5 = Cr24/L (Cr18/fifth in plastic; Cr1.5/shot)
180/5 = Cr36/L (Cr27/fifth in glass; Cr2.25/shot)
This is before any warehouse/storage fees, lading fees, transfer fees, and duties. You could easily up to double the shipping cost. Possibly treble it, even.
It's reasonable that a container could be contract shipped, but it's unreasonable that it would be on a single ship the whole way, because it's more than a year's trip. On a single line, yes, absolutely reasonable.