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Originally Posted by Witchking
Historically already done, United States circa 1941-45.
Moving them via SHIP (mostly liberty ships) 90% of the distance to the near port under control. Then perhaps a short rail jaunt, road transporter or if necessary via its own tracks.
Ukraine is a bit farther than Liverpool, Cherbourg or Antwerp...but so long as you control the seas not enough to matter. The main problem would be what port to ship them to.
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Hope you have lots of roll-on roll-off transporters rated for 60-70 tracked vehicles. For reinforcing Ukraine, or your average small war, I'm sure there's enough. For a major war, maybe not.
Containerisation means that far, far fewer docks have cranes good for lifting tanks, and likewise ships - and in WWII one reason the US wasn't very interested in heavy tanks was that few ship and dockside cranes were rated for more than 30 tons. Modern tanks weigh much more, but even an adapted container crane will have a limit of about 35 tons.