• silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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    9 months ago

    Ships are a lot bigger and we expect a lot more reliability from them than we did in the wind-only era. This makes tugs necessary to enable safe maneuvering in harbor.

    Bigger and containerization have the effect of making shipping cheaper on a per-unit basis, which is why they’re used.