What many folks may not realize is that ice for drinking water is often made from bottled or filtered water.
What's the difference between shipping 100 lbs of water then freezing it vs shipping 100 lbs of ice?
What's the difference between shipping 100 lbs of water then freezing it vs shipping 100 lbs of ice?
Often it's the other way around, the ice is and can be used to cool other cargo. Ship fruit or fish with it.
This is how the meatpacking plants in Chicago used to work, entire train loads of ice was shipped down, then we add beef in Chicago, then you ship refrigerated beef and ice together to the rest of the country.