Practice question · Multiple choice
Containerisation meant value density stopped governing what could be shipped. Why did that change WHERE things are made?
Hints
- Ask what fraction of a shirt's price is now shipping.
- If distance costs nothing, what is left to hold a factory near its customers?
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A. Because proximity to market stops being worth paying for
Why
When transport is a rounding error, the geography of production is set by production costs alone. That is the mechanism behind offshoring, and behind the emptying of the old dock districts.
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