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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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