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What is amazing is the cost: Just $185 million. A brand new 747 costs $350 million. At the end of the day it does something simple. It holds stuff and float
by codeonfire 12y ago
What is amazing is the cost: Just $185 million. A brand new 747 costs $350 million. At the end of the day it does something simple. It holds stuff and floats while engines push it.
- runeks 12y agoIt's not really fair to compare a ship to an airplane. What happens if all the engines on this ship stall? You wait a week or so before someone arrives with new engines. In a plane you fall down. I imagine this is just a big, hollow piece of steel with propellers in the back and room for as many containers as possible. > Only 15 crew live on the ship when it is at sea, and their living quarters make up the tower that sits under the bridge. Compare this to a 747, which is designed to transport 350 people through the air.
- khuey 12y agoThat's the point being made. These are enormously expensive for something conceptually quite simple. A large part of that is probably the sheer size of the triple E. The original 747 is less than a meter longer than the width of the ship. And if you could squeeze the 747 in there (cut off a bit of the nose perhaps) you could fit more than 5 of them wingtip-to-wingtip in the length of the ship.
- lazyant 12y agoFrom what I understand, the low cost of Korean ship builders has pretty much destroyed the shipyard industry in Europe and other places.