Just for fun, I might run what might be considered an "Invention of the Week" each week, sometimes whimsical, sometimes with what at least to me is a good idea, and sometimes offering what is already on the market.
Here's take one: Why isn't there a company that can take freight from any sizable city in the world and, using its own ships and planes and trucks and trains -- without contracting out, but rather just using entirely its own resources -- can bring that freight to you any place in the U.S.?
In this day and age, and with the world's economy so blended together, why not?
I'm talking a company that can take either small orders of freight or large, warehouse-destination deliveries, a company that has its name on planes and trains and ships and trucks -- your one-stop service for any global shipping need.
We'll allow that some companies won't allow such private enterprise. Even excluding them, could such a company exist?
Obviously, that would take a large company. What do ships cost? A friend googled that for me and came up with about a million bucks. I don't know if that price is correct, but we know it would be a lot. The cost for all the ships, and planes, and trucks and trains might be so prohibitive that such a company will never be created.
I got the thought while thinking on the announcement of a Utah firm, C.R. England, that is is going global. I don't know how far-reaching C.R. England's efforts will be. Nor do I know which firms there already with international presence, other than FedEx. But, I am rather there currently simply is not a from-anywhere-to-anywhere, any-sized-order, all-with-our-own-means, international shipping company.
Is it a dream too large for even today's mega-sized business world, or could such a company come about?
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