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Re:Uber Freight by londons_explore on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @11:27AM (#13264020)
If a ship has no people, it also needs no bridge, control room, bedrooms, kitchen etc. If it has none of that, it needs to water system, toilets, lighting, heating etc.

And with all that gone, you could fit a lot more cargo on the same size boat.

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Re:Uber Freight by tptacek on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @11:48AM (#13264163)
Can you express "a lot" as a percentage of existing capacity? Because it seems like, relative to the amount of cargo space these ships already have, that percentage would be pretty small.
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Re:Uber Freight by EdHominem on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @07:32PM (#13267519)
By eyeballing an Emma Maersk diagram, I think you could get three more stacks of containers, for ~5% more capacity.
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Re:Uber Freight by tptacek on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @08:56PM (#13267868)
Related question: if they wanted 5% more capacity in the Emma Maersk, what kept them from just building it that way? Are the sizes of these ships a fuel and utilization efficiency optimization problem?
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