Management Lessons from the Sinking of the SS El Faro
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The Demise of the Elfaro in Extreme Weather
The design of altharo may have played a role in its demise ultimately. It's like a kind of a big parking deck, you don't have a lot of obstructions. So the below deck, a couple of them, are basically just wide open. They're not compartment alive. Now roros have safety e that are essentially equivalent to other vessels. And so the loss of the elfaro in these very extreme weather conditions was contributed to by her design and and also by her age. The economics of this very much favor very efficient movement in transit and very efficient loading and unloading of the vessel. There's a real urgency to try to do these voyages as time efficiently as
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