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It's not like this is alien technology. You park the boat along a pier and you hoist a crane over it. There are a lot of ships that still need to use ports that
by throwawaaarrgh 4y ago
It's not like this is alien technology. You park the boat along a pier and you hoist a crane over it. There are a lot of ships that still need to use ports that are not cargo ships. Cargo ships are just one aspect of regular maritime traffic.
- gpm 4y agoI'm not in the industry, but modern ports seem to me to be optimized for offloading ships with cargo stacked high in shipping containers on deck without significant obstructions interfering with cranes. Not ships with a bunch of masts for sails.
- jamiek88 4y agoWhile that is true, 'break bulk' is still very manually handled thus expensive. Things that don't fit in containers basically. Often its roll on roll off rather than crane. So there are non container options but if they could use containers for break bulk they would so the efficiency of this is probably not very high.
- IshKebab 4y agoOf course it's not alien technology, it's just obsolete technology.