So it’s probably not that cost effective to have the cranes on the ship if you are only delivering to high-volume ports that already have massive cranes. With more cranes you could load and unload faster, but I’m not sure how much money you would save by saving time at port; it normally takes 24 hours to fully load a container ship, and I imagine that it costs the shipping company a fair amount of money to use the dock.
Part of what makes this ship a good target for pirates is that it could have a wide range of cargo aboard. Since it’s also a RORO ship it could have vehicles, the on-board cranes make it easier to get to cargo of interest, and because they would commonly ship to low-volume ports and therefore water less traveled, they (the pirates) would be safer.
]]>I do like the concept. Hm, actually, I’m now wondering about how naval/marine ships work to dump supplies on random coastlines.
And the color of that water? love.
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