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Ceiba is a traditional three-mast schooner [1] that carries an equivalent of 9 shipping containers but not actual containers: > The design of the Ceiba Line ve
by sradman 6y ago
Ceiba is a traditional three-mast schooner [1] that carries an equivalent of 9 shipping containers but not actual containers:
> The design of the Ceiba Line vessels boasts two cargo hatches to access the holds, which can be used simultaneously. This increases flexibility and storage options when loading and unloading cargo.
Construction [2] of the first ship started January 2019 in Costa Rica and is ongoing. The company strategy is ethical shipping that removes modern container ships from the supply chain. I suspect that this ship/company will be part of the marketing message for Fair Trade coffee and other organic/sustainable products from the tropics.
The story [3] is not about automation, engineering, or productivity; it is about pre-industrial purity.
[1] https://www.sailcargo.org/en/vessel https://www.sailcargo.org/en/vessel
[2] https://www.sailcargo.org/en/milestones https://www.sailcargo.org/en/milestones
[3] https://youtu.be/rNf7-34tW8I https://youtu.be/rNf7-34tW8I
- hinkley 6y agoI wonder how many people in this conversation have actually seen a shipping port first hand. I've spent a good deal of time gazing out at the docks at the Port of Seattle. There are train cars and last-mile tractor-trailers that are designed to have a cargo container bolted directly to them. Without the containers, you have to repack the cargo half a dozen times: - factory to truck/train - truck to docks - docks to ship - ship to docks - docks to truck/train - truck to warehouse/distribution center With the shipping containers you have: - warehouse to container - container to warehouse/distribution center The effort needed to move the container instead of the contents is a couple orders of magnitude less, which is the whole point of the containers.
- sradman 6y agoMarc Levinson's book The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger [1] is a good source. Many people, including a very vocal minority of HN commenters, subscribe to a romanticized view of nature. Steven Pinker refers to this as the Noble Savage [2] in his book The Blank Slate [3]. Personally, I think Adam Smith's Invisible Hand and Charles Darwin's Tangled Bank are both manifestations of the same marvellous mechanism: emergent order. [1] https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691170817/the-box https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691170817/th... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blank_Slate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blank_Slate