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I wonder how much money is saved in fuel and maintenance.

• jacquesm 5y ago
  It may well be that the decision to go uncrewed was given in by either higher purchase price or higher operating costs so they had to do one more thing to make the ship competitive. But making an electric ship uncrewed is feasible, doing that with a diesel would be a little bit more tricky, boats that size are - unsurprisingly, I guess - mechanically quite complex. In this case they 'crew' the boat from the shore, which will probably work well as long as conditions are good, but I'd hate to be in the driving seat of one of those and to see the comms link go down.