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You're right, 'can be run' != 'is run'. According to Wikipedia, the Emma Maersk has a crew of 13: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_M%C3%A6rsk https://en.wiki
by the_rosentotter 10y ago
You're right, 'can be run' != 'is run'. According to Wikipedia, the Emma Maersk has a crew of 13:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_M%C3%A6rsk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_M%C3%A6rsk
Still not a lot of fat to cut for a ship with the capacity of a medium size port.
- bkor 10y agoThe captains I asked was a captain for one of Maersk E-class vessels. They don't use the minimal amount. Unfortunately it's been a few years since I asked and I don't remember much of the details, just that the stated minimal crew is not what's on a vessel.
- londons_explore 10y agoIf a ship has no people, it also needs no bridge, control room, bedrooms, kitchen etc. If it has none of that, it needs to water system, toilets, lighting, heating etc. And with all that gone, you could fit a lot more cargo on the same size boat.
- tptacek 10y agoCan you express "a lot" as a percentage of existing capacity? Because it seems like, relative to the amount of cargo space these ships already have, that percentage would be pretty small.
- EdHominem 10y agoBy eyeballing an Emma Maersk diagram, I think you could get three more stacks of containers, for ~5% more capacity.
- tptacek 10y agoRelated question: if they wanted 5% more capacity in the Emma Maersk, what kept them from just building it that way? Are the sizes of these ships a fuel and utilization efficiency optimization problem?