Tera-block speeds up shipbuilding

Samsung Heavy Industries has developed a new shipbuilding system, called the "tera-block" method that allows the company to assemble a vessel from just two large ship blocks. An extra-large ship usually consists of dozens of blocks, but in recent years shipbuilders have been trying to reduce the number of ship ...

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