End scene with bad guy locked in car

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lol awesome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpJYeERZx5g

It's not that the ships "must" be at sea for months, it's dependent on their goals.

Some container ships do a 6 to 12 month "tour", they aren't fully at sea the entire time but what happens is they go up one coast and down another coast.

Say they begin in South America, dock at each major port going up the Western coast into North America. Then they cross the pacific from Alaska over to Japan and chart a course that visits every major port down the Asian coastline.

At each dock they may load or unload any number of shipping containers.

So, are the crew at sea for months without port visits? No, but if a shipping container is put on with no rush delivery order and scheduled to not be dropped off until the ship reaches a distant port then yes any particular shipping container could be at sea for many months.

I worked for a company that imported metal industrial parts from China. They only placed one massive order per year (10's of millions of dollars in one order)

The delivery channels they used were the cheapest (but reliable) that they could find. Some deliveries would not come in for 3 to 6 months because of shipping routes. The ships would take big sweeping trips around the oceans going from port to port from China before getting to the US.

For that company it didn't matter, there was no rush. They stock up parts that will never go down in value (nuts, bolts, brackets, etc) and sell to massive chain hardware stores (like home depot). Their supply chain does 100's of millions in sales across multiple continents.

So their orders are planned months/years in advance and the incoming stock is always just keep their warehouses topped off. Quite literally the most expensive part of the process is shipping. If they can save a buck by using cargo ships that take circular routes, they do it.

And cargo ships do circular routes for exactly that reason. They can service many small deliveries that only need to be moved further up a coast line (and who may only need shipping a few times a year) while also doing some longer term contracts that are paying for no-rush service and won't get dropped off until much further down the port chain.

Cargo ships that beeline across the ocean (and there aren't many) cost considerably more. If you ever get into cargo logistics you will find that you are talking about weeks and months of delivery time; not because the ships can't cross the ocean quickly, but because they are visiting many ports along a coast line before they bother to make the crossing.

I don't think the ship was headed for China given that it left Florida.

It'll probably stop somewhere within a week at most.

Depending on exactly where the container was in the pile of containers, the crew of the ship might not have been able to do a damned thing about it, even if they heard his horn. The ship was not equipped with cranes to lift any of the containers and by the time they eventually get to where ever they were going, lack of water may have become a rather fatal problem for him. That is assuming there wasn't a bottle sitting on the back seat or whatever.