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Lots of questions about whether the container tie-downs can withstand that type of load, and apparently they can, but I'm curious what you'll do about the fact that you're relying on 3rd party containers underneath you being in spec. Do you have a mitigation plan for damaged container connections below you in the stack? This seems like a variable that could be outside your control.

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Containers being out of ISO 668 and weak was a risk that worried me for some time, but it turns out this is a risk for existing owner-operators too! Containers are inspected pretty regularly to make sure they're OK, or so our customers keep assuring me.

With that said, I'd really like to have some sort of load path-sensing autonomy onboard, like strain gauges in the corner posts of our sail which detect an incorrectly fastened or out-of-spec container before the other corners fail. Should be pretty detectably nonlinear if one twistlock isn't installed right and one corner post isn't transmitting any load.

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