The first of 5 of these monsters.
This monster can move goods at a RIDICULOUSLY LOW unit cost per container.
An article I read stated that the cost to load/unload, in some ports (US West Coast), will exceed the cost of moving containers from the factory, to a Chinese port, loading them on the ship, and moving it across the Pacific.
Which is why they will be unloading in Mexico, not a US port, with the goods moving into the US by rail (Lazaro Cardenas).
Ahhhh ... you just answered one of my concerns
Well now isn’t that interesting. I was about to ask how fast those dockside cranes would be able to load and unload, thinking US ports, but Mexican’s doing the jobs American’s won’t do, works for me. /s
If it is going to port in Mexico they better account for 1 in 5 containers never making it from Mexico to the U.S, in other words hijacked.
Because of longshoreman mafia??
And one torpedo from one submarine will stop it dead in the water. No sonar, just passive “home on noise” guidance from 25,000 yards out, no periscope observation needed nor wanted.. Just listen, track a few minutes, shoot. Go someplace else. Shoot another cargo ship or tanker. Go someplace else. Shoot another tanker. .....
It took 4-5 torpedoes to sink one WWII cargo ship averaging only 10,000 tons cargo.
A single modern sub can stop (might not sink, but it is stopped dead) 1,000,000 tons of cargo in one mission.
It was a rare, very rare WWII sub skipper who had more than 50,000 tons the entire war.