US-built autonomous ships on fixed weekly loops, worked at IC terminals at both ends of the domestic lanes.
Ships between US ports must be built, flagged and owned in the United States. IC builds them. The domestic lanes come first; the international fleet follows from the same yard.
Ten container ships of 3,600 TEU, built in IC yards, run the mainland to Hawaii, Guam, Alaska and Puerto Rico. Every sailing lands at a terminal The Brain already runs or schedules.
Eight 24,000 TEU ships on two Pacific loops, fourteen LNG carriers, four oil tankers, four bulk carriers, four car carriers and two livestock carriers: 46 ships with stage one.
Container services sail a fixed weekly rotation. Each call has a berth window booked at the terminal before the ship leaves the previous port.
The Pacific loops are timed at 20 kn. The two knots in reserve and 19 hours of float recover up to three days of weather in every rotation.
Tankers, bulk, car and livestock carriers are dispatched voyage by voyage. The Brain matches each ship to the next cargo and books its berth before it sails.
Twelve supervisors a shift watch the fleet from the operations centre, about four ships each. Each ship carries its own planning model and keeps sailing its plan if the link drops.
Pacific A calls Shanghai, Busan, Los Angeles and Oakland. Each line is one ship: flat where it is in port, sloped where it is at sea. The same pattern repeats every 28 days.
Every ship on the line is built by IC and runs on The Brain. Each links to its own page.
Eight 24,000 TEU ships on the Pacific. Ten 3,600 TEU ships for the domestic lanes, on the oil tanker’s 75 MWt reactor module.
Container ship →174,000 m³ each, from the Gulf export terminal to Europe: four cargoes a week, sixteen million tonnes a year.
LNG carrier →Two million barrels each, loaded offshore in the Gulf and dispatched voyage by voyage.
Oil tanker →180,000 t of ore, grain or coal, loaded and discharged by the ship’s own cranes.
Bulk carrier →Nine thousand vehicles, driven aboard by robots and delivered to the rail ramp at the terminal.
Car carrier (Ro-Ro) →Twenty thousand head on climate-controlled decks, watched every second on passage.
Livestock carrier →The Brain carries each voyage in its digital twin and books the terminal before the ship arrives. The ship carries its own planning model, so the plan holds when the satellite link is thin.
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