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Re:Largest Cargo Sailboat Completes Historic First Atlantic ... by beezlewax on Sunday November 09, 2025 @05:54AM (#45864654)
Why does that cargo all have to be on giant ships vs tons of smaller ones?
Re:Largest Cargo Sailboat Completes Historic First Atlantic ... by NetMageSCW on Sunday November 09, 2025 @11:56PM (#45872570)
Overhead - there’s a fixed overhead to building ships, maintaining ships, crewing ships, supplying ships. If that overhead can be amortized over more cargo, it is cheaper.