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supersquirrel@lemmy.ca 1 day agobut modern cargo ships all use big stacks of shipping containers, and handle them at ports using giant overhead cranes. that’s effectively the worldwide standard.
and ships with huge sailing masts are either impossible or very difficult to make work with those overhead cranes.
The masts fold
spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org 1 day ago
that looks to me like they fold in order to meet some height restriction to fit under a bridge or something, not in order to unload cargo?
this is the setup I’m talking about: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_ship#%2Fmedia%2FF…
and you can see from the way the top deck is built, with or without the folding masts, that this ship is not designed to be unloaded like that.