Notable Point · 2:03:31-2:03:56

Improved oil burners create a fleet-wide refit burden

A new propulsion upgrade promises better performance while requiring every existing ship design to be revisited.

Notes

An improved fuel-oil burner immediately creates a plan to revisit every ship design in the fleet. Better machinery means a large refit burden once hundreds of active vessels are considered. The campaign postpones that work to a later session because each existing design must be updated. A single propulsion advance can therefore create a fleet-wide standardization programme.