East Asia has extensive coastal medium-distance trade. There are so many islands and island nations. That's oceanic trade, but not transatlantic or trans-pacific long hauls.

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antonkochubey 5 days ago | parent [-]

Those small islands also don’t have any infrastructure to recharge such ships. The small ones often struggle even to serve their own needs.

	▲	Animats 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Islands. As in Japan, Taiwan, Okinawa, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, and for practical purposes, Australia. All of which rely on medium-haul sea traffic.
	▲	matthewdgreen 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I would expect that building out electric fueling points throughout Asia will be a big infrastructure investment over the next few years.