The Suez Canal will be widened

Re:The Suez Canal will be widened by GordonS on Sunday May 16, 2021 @10:55AM (#27174130)

Surely it's a lot easier and less expensive to build an engineless, ship "trailer" than a self-propelled ship with an engine, fuel tanks, propellers, a generator etc?

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Re:The Suez Canal will be widened by bombcar on Sunday May 16, 2021 @11:44AM (#27174412)

The ships are already at the maximum efficiency size given their engines, so to pull a similar sized ship they’d have to add an engine to the first one, in which case why not add it to the second and have two ships?

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Re:The Suez Canal will be widened by GordonS on Sunday May 16, 2021 @02:44PM (#27175969)

Could they be pulled by multiple small tugs instead? (no idea if that's feasible on the open seas!)

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