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by CuriousNinja 1951 days ago
How do they plan to load/unload cargo containers from this ship? At most of the worlds ports cargo containers are loaded and unloaded from the above the ship using dock craines, but the wind sails and the (roof?) on this seem prevent that.
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Maybe it is designed for cars as cargo i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll-on/roll-off
Yeah it seems to be a car freighter.

Under Cargo it simply says it is capable of carrying 7,000 cars in the cargo hold. It doesn't appear to be set up for shipping container cargo. It is possible that top-loaded shipping containers don't work well with the sails/airfoil that need to be above the ship.