- No analysis of last mile logistics. I am not a logistics expert, but I know enough to know that last mile logistics dominate costs. How does this setup improve the issues with the transfer of containers once they arrive in port? I can see some possible improvements by opening up more direct routes such that you can avoid rail transport and reduce truck line times, but then again most of the global population lives near the coast...
- The whole autonomous angle doesn't deal with the fact that modern cargo vessel area already highly automated. For the most part, the crews are there to maintain and deal with emergencies, not sail it. Would you really want your $100M investment to be wandering alone over the ocean with no one there to fix things if they go wrong?
- They massively underplay the safety issues. Yes, the vessel spends most of its time over open ocean, but its got to come into port somewhere, and last mile logistics are simpler the closer it is to population centers. Regulators will rightly demand lots of controls and compliance on half a kilometer long floating bomb.
- No analysis of last mile logistics. I am not a logistics expert, but I know enough to know that last mile logistics dominate costs. How does this setup improve the issues with the transfer of containers once they arrive in port? I can see some possible improvements by opening up more direct routes such that you can avoid rail transport and reduce truck line times, but then again most of the global population lives near the coast...
- The whole autonomous angle doesn't deal with the fact that modern cargo vessel area already highly automated. For the most part, the crews are there to maintain and deal with emergencies, not sail it. Would you really want your $100M investment to be wandering alone over the ocean with no one there to fix things if they go wrong?
- They massively underplay the safety issues. Yes, the vessel spends most of its time over open ocean, but its got to come into port somewhere, and last mile logistics are simpler the closer it is to population centers. Regulators will rightly demand lots of controls and compliance on half a kilometer long floating bomb.