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Re:Electric Ship Batteries Promise Compact, Cooler Power by dan_grec on Thursday November 12, 2026 @04:52PM (#50474842)
A huge amount of volume is already used for fuel and the engine. 2 million gallons of fuel for a Panamax is around 7,600 cubic meters.
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Re:Electric Ship Batteries Promise Compact, Cooler Power by lazide on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:09PM (#50486465)
A TEU is about 38.5 cubic meters. So that works out to about 200 TEU. A Panamax can carry about 5000 TEU worth of containers.

So all the fuel is about 4% of the cargo capacity.

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