This week, news emerged that a South-Korean shipyard, HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), is positioning itself as a prospective builder of nuclear-powered merchant vessels.
For a nuclear-powered containership, there would be many upsides.
As The Loadstar previously discussed in analysing the KUN-24AP, such a vessel would have an outsize market share advantage, with improved cargo capacity over a conventional ship of the same size; zero-emissions in operation; and a higher …
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