News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The Suez Canal will be widened. Parent comment

Re:The Suez Canal will be widened by usrusr on Sunday May 16, 2021 @08:18PM (#27178647)
But they don't run on rails. Size didn't play into Ever Given in any way other than that smaller would have been easier to dredge/pull out, and that smaller may or may not have had a more favorable ratio between rudder control and wind load.

Any attempts at standardization would actually be worse, because now they build each ship for exactly one actual canal. With standardization they'd get built to some document that will get interpreted slightly different in every place.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Suez Canal will be widened by toyg on Monday May 17, 2021 @06:42AM (#27182027)
Standardization would allow canal operators to build better and safer tooling around the strait, allowing for more slack and so on.

The alternative is simply to continue as it is, with ship builders squeezing every inch just because they can, and it becomes a matter of if, not when, another EverGiven happens.

[ Parent | on HN ]