Do convoys have a role in modern warfare?

[Blackadder1916]

First of all, Blackadder 1916, that number is for a single US Mech Division using their Sealift "superships". For normal country, you would be looking at a little more than twice that number of ships, say around twenty, and then add (it's not in the US sealift superships capability) a couple of large tankers - divisions run on fuel.

My link and quote was a quick and dirty response to ERC's question.  I did try to find some of the old UMSTs that I faintly recollect being in now outdated SOPs/staff data tables that are perhaps somewhere in the collection of boxes sitting in my basement.  I had recently skimmed through the top layer in response to a question (on another subject) from a fellow member of these forums, but unfortunately I haven't been able to find them.

Gazing back through the mists of time, I recall leafing through some old (green covered) CFPs during night shifts in the CP rad van during my first WAINCON in the 1970s (had to do something to stay awake between radio checks).  Among them was a pub on "Movements" (can't recall the number or exact title) that included diagrams of the "CN Marine" vessels and how they would be loaded with military equipment for shipment.  A decade or so later, that specific pub was no longer reference material on the UEO course (at least I don't remember seeing it), but then, there was more focus on air and rail movement than sea despite the then recent example (good or bad) of BRAVE LION.

As for ballpark figures about the shipping needed to move a division, since I haven't found any Canadian data on-line, I'll revert to this 2003 story.

An armada of nine MSC cargo ships loaded an entire U.S. Army division's equipment for duty in Iraq.

The U.S. Army's First Armored Division received orders to deploy to the Gulf on March 4. MSC was asked to move the division's cargo to the Persian Gulf.  A number of government-owned and privately chartered cargo vessels were selected to do the job.

And this extract from something by the Congressional Budget Office via Google Books.