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Cable repair and crane ships as recovery infrastructure

The auxiliary plan treats cable repair and mobile port handling as essential parts of restoring logistics after infrastructure damage.

Notes

The support-ship annex includes cable-repair vessels and mobile crane ships, showing that fleet logistics extends into infrastructure recovery. The table seeks four cable-repair ships from a listed current inventory of zero and increases crane ships to seven. Cable ships can restore damaged undersea links, while crane ships can unload cargo at ports whose fixed handling equipment has been damaged. A crane ship can supply cargo-handling capacity that the destination port has lost. This complements sealift because transport ships still need a way to discharge their cargo after reaching a damaged terminal.