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That generator is for very short periods of time spent in transit. Once it's on the ship it's directly connected to ships power. This also has implications for it's placement as not all rows of stacks on a ship have power cables run out to them.

Also, because of the short time requirement, and some extreme low temperature requirements on some cargo, it needs to be in a place where it can be disconnected and very quickly craned off the ship.

The engineer making and breaking the connections will generally have to manually log the time of these actions and the time of the unload. It's all a very interesting and somewhat complicated process.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U75MZwtDCXA




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