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This post literally makes no sense. What is the purpose of container ships, are they just using it as a unit of measurement. In that case what is they journey of the ship have to do with anything.
I figured it was in response to people using the ships as a gotcha. Pointing out that solar panels are manufactured using power that, itself, isn't green yet, and are shipped using non-green methods. If done in good faith, I'd suspect the were unfamiliar with using one existing process to bootstrap a new one, but it's usually just another way of saying we should maintain the status quo (however bad) until its replacement is absolutely perfect.
About 40% of shipping by tonnage today is moving fossil fuels around. If we move to renewables, this pretty much goes away.