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East Asia has extensive coastal medium-distance trade. There are so many islands and island nations. That's oceanic trade, but not transatlantic or trans-pacifi
by Animats 11mo ago
East Asia has extensive coastal medium-distance trade. There are so many islands and island nations. That's oceanic trade, but not transatlantic or trans-pacific long hauls.
- antonkochubey 11mo agoThose small islands also don’t have any infrastructure to recharge such ships. The small ones often struggle even to serve their own needs.
- matthewdgreen 11mo agoI would expect that building out electric fueling points throughout Asia will be a big infrastructure investment over the next few years.
- Animats 11mo agoIslands. As in Japan, Taiwan, Okinawa, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, and for practical purposes, Australia. All of which rely on medium-haul sea traffic.