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by clankfan
2874 days ago
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Thank you so much for this valuable post. Did you mean that China leads the usa in tonnage? And did you mean that large liquid natural gas ships aren't planning out when you said very very large ship orders aren't materializing? Isn't there a large effort underway to put natural gas on ships, therefore undermining Russia's pipelines and also bolstering large ship production? |
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I'm not sure. I believe China is now #2 in terms of raw tonnage, just edging out Korea.
> And did you mean that large liquid natural gas ships aren't planning out when you said very very large ship orders aren't materializing?
The container ship business was upsizing the ships to unbelievable sizes and capacity. But it's a little like the A380 aircraft, it wasn't the right bet as local port handling capacity in many older ports isn't sized for ships and carrying capacity above some load. It turns out the overall satisfaction with those super large ships isn't there and some of the shipyards that were retrofitted to be able to build those monsters simply aren't getting the orders for those class of ships.
> Isn't there a large effort underway to put natural gas on ships, therefore undermining Russia's pipelines and also bolstering large ship production?
There are ships that can move LNG and similar fuel types. But for intra-continental shipment, nothing beats pipelines. The wikipedia article on LNG ships even mentions the DSME shipyard and some capacity and future order infomation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNG_carrier