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

Fully autonomous cargo shipping is coming with the next update.

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.

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