[dylan604]

> Anyone can order a few tons of rebar, but ask for 10,000 tons of plate steel suitable for ships and you will be laughed at.

Sounds like yet another reason supporting concrete ships

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_ship

[whynotmaybe]

Well there's the annual concrete canoe competition but we'll need a lot of canoe to replace a ship.

https://www.asce.org/communities/student-members/conferences...

[dylan604]

or one might say, "we're going to need a bigger boat"