does distance affect shipping cost
Gkonis and Psaraftis Some key variables affecting liner shipping costs 10 1 2 Figure 4: Distance comparison of total shipping costs per TEU 3 (Cullinane and Khanna, 2000) 4 5 Figure 5 graphically illustrates the decline in positive returns to scale as ship size and route 6 length increase.
1 Costs for trucking goods vary depending on weight and distance traveled, but a coast-to-coast trip will cost anywhere between $2,000 and $5,000. 2  Rail: Rail shipping is the most cost effective mode of transportation for products that need to travel more than 700 miles on land.