are being built but not everyone sees the need like comeback senator for economics michele vest halcombeout. of home there's a variety of reasons are easy to explain the infrastructure of the ports would have . to be rebuilt to accommodate the huge ships. walls would need to be fortified it would be a huge infrastructural undertaking of 3 out of and then there's the other question what's the optimal ship size and it load of you know read i think many of today's ship owners have realized that the optimum capacity is actually between 14 and 18000 containers because then the ships consumption isn't so high. these are guns and these are all things you have to consider which is why we'd be delighted to stick with the size we have now yet but these are all. the city is connected to the sea you via the river elbe or over the past 2 centuries the elbow was dredged several times to accommodate larger ships costing billions of euros and sparking protests from environmentalists the senator wants the current deepening operation to be the last. the city is worried that other ports will expand to welc