The US should not intervene in Ukraine!

[Heywood]

Even if the US rail system can move the containers, the existing shipping terminals can't safely handle them, existing container ships aren't set up safely store them, the distribution system at the receiving end aren't set up to receive them from tanks. The deadweight of the tanks themselves adds to the inefficiency.

ISO tanks are not rail cars. The are tanks designed to ride on rail cars, trucks, or ships.



LNG can be shipped this way virtually anywhere. You are correct though, a pipeline carries considerably more volume than rail can....even if rail began to run as much LNG as it does crude oil.