FT.com / Asia-Pacific - Slump leaves cargo ships in the doldrums - 0 views
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Marco Cantamessa on 10 Mar 10A story from an often neglected industry: shipbuilding. A new technological trajectory seemed to emerge during the last decade, with the launch of large and extremely fast (30 knots) container ships. Unfortunately, the economic crisis and a new vision onsustainability has changed the tradeoffs between vessel speed and operating cost. Technology is definitely shaped by demand.