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Warpy

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15. Big container ships travel long routes, often circumnavigating the globe

Reply to True Dough (Reply #1)

Sat Apr 26, 2025, 12:37 PM

Apr 2025

or at least traveling between continents. They refuel as needed in ports they are entering and then leaving as cargo is offloaded and other cargo taken aboard.

(Yes, I'm a weirdo, watched switch engines putting trains together when I was a kid, watched container ports in action as an adult, so sue me)

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Big container ships travel long routes, often circumnavigating the globe Warpy Apr 2025 #15

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