COMFORT, RELIABILITY & EFFICIENCY

Imagine a family wishing to travel from New England to Florida for vacation by car. Today, they have only one option – drive I-95 there and back. With “sea bridges” in place, that family will have a second choice: go to a port near home, drive their car on to a ship and park it, check into a room, and relax on board while a SeaBridge ship “drives” them and their car to a port near their destination. Instead of fighting traffic, enduring the tension and fatigue of long hours on the road, and running the risk of traffic jams in one or more of the urban areas en route, the family can relax, eat, drink, shop, exercise, enjoy a variety of entertainment and/or sleep while the ship takes them toward their destination. All in less time and at about the same cost that it would take them to drive.

Freight companies moving goods from New England to Florida have two options today: drive the load all the way or take it to an intermodal rail depot for onward shipment by rail to a second rail depot with a truck taking the load from there to its final destination.

SeaBridge will give freight companies two additional options:

• use the ship to move the driver, who can rest on route while the load and vehicle move toward their destination, or
• use the ship the same way it does rail intermodal, i.e., to move the trailer from port to port.