I guess I want to know "oceanic" means in this instance. Is that just going out ...

Animats · 2025-12-06T22:22:56 1765059776

East Asia has extensive coastal medium-distance trade. There are so many islands and island nations. That's oceanic trade, but not transatlantic or trans-pacific long hauls.

antonkochubey · 2025-12-06T23:08:23 1765062503

Those small islands also don’t have any infrastructure to recharge such ships. The small ones often struggle even to serve their own needs.

Animats · 2025-12-07T03:07:53 1765076873

Islands. As in Japan, Taiwan, Okinawa, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, and for practical purposes, Australia. All of which rely on medium-haul sea traffic.

matthewdgreen · 2025-12-06T23:14:10 1765062850

I would expect that building out electric fueling points throughout Asia will be a big infrastructure investment over the next few years.

ta9000 · 2025-12-06T22:54:31 1765061671

If it were Elon Musk saying it, I’d agree, but this is CATL. They actually do the work.

lostlogin · 2025-12-06T23:34:05 1765064045

Fully autonomous cargo shipping is coming with the next update.

manacit · 2025-12-08T07:57:40 1765180660

Cargo ships have very few crew as-is, I'd imagine there isn't a huge need to lower that from where it is now.

If something breaks in the middle of the ocean, it's probably better to have a few people on board who can fix it.

sudosysgen · 2025-12-08T14:17:54 1765203474

If it's rare enough it may well be cost efficient to just fly people into the ship if and when that happens.