One gallon of diesel pulls one ton of cargo 59 miles by truck, 202 miles by train and 514 miles by canal barge, Ms. Mantello said.
The accident resulted in the discharge of around 11 million gallons of oil, 20% of the cargo, into Prince William Sound.
The Versa gets an admirable 34 miles per gallon on the highway and has 50 cubic feet of cargo space with the seats folded more than the MazdaSpeed 3 (43 cubic feet) and MINI Cooper (24 cubic feet).
A locomotive can haul a ton of cargo four times as far on a gallon of gas as a truck can.
Thirty-three were killed when the Alva Cape's cargo, 4.2 million gallons of highly flammable naphtha, exploded and burned.
The Ecuadorean Navy had hoped to clear the tanker, the Jessica, from this harbor, on San Cristóbal Island, where it ran aground last week, leaking most of its cargo of 240,000 gallons of fuel into the archipelago's waters.
"All kinds of cargo, everything.
Ariel Foxman, editor in chief of Cargo, disagrees.
It carried 2.4 tonnes of cargo.
Curiously, there were no signs of cargo.
