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I didn't look at the PDF, but the sample size reported in the article is 11 ships(!), which makes me wonder how this might look across a larger population of ships.

I wonder how much labor expense has to be saved to make up for a future catastrophic event?



11 might be a larger share of ships worldwide than you'd expect. The complete list of US-flagged privately-owned merchant ships is less than 200:

https://www.maritime.dot.gov/sites/marad.dot.gov/files/2025-...


US-flagged privately-owned merchant ships might be a smaller share of ships worldwide than you'd expect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_merchant_navy_capacity... Liberia rules the waves.


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