As a retired Merchant Marine, Chief Cook, this is what the Big Boat corps have brought on themselves. After WWII, the shipping industry changed so radically toward mechanization, that good paying jobs were lost, a way of life, and so went the smaller less efficient ships. But what came was the ridiculous behemoths that require the same size ports, a domino effect has taken place. The smaller ports are past up, these places were summarily executed by way of economic death. It’s sad that the sailor’s way of life is all but dead now, BTW: in my family we can trace that back 4 centuries.
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