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They may be more efficient for the shipping line but do the 20,000 TEU behemoths (ULVC) exacerbate the problem?
by CalChris 5y ago
They may be more efficient for the shipping line but do the 20,000 TEU behemoths (ULVC) exacerbate the problem?
- superice 5y agoYes and no. Yes because you can't run a ship carrying some containers on a certain line as often, which means that the wait after missing a ship is likely going to be bigger. But also no because fundamentally the problem of having 10 delayed 2000 TEU ships is not that different from 1 ship of 20,000 TEU. Not to mention that ships only got about 2x bigger over the past 20 years, so the numbers I just pulled out of my ass are quite arbitrary. More smaller ships would give a bit more flexibility, but I don't think it's an easy fix for the current problems.