Well a great alternative, and a replacement to container ships that is more efficient, much lower costs, and more reliable is BLIMP baby! There are designs out there that are over 300m square, and would use a small fraction of the fuel that a container ship uses to move per cargo.
Besides that, if the whole economic system was not a capital type system, then we would be doing all of our own manufacturing, our own work, and not slave labor in some distant land.
I too agree that the new Nuclear power systems are quite good, and should be seriously considered. Although, the cold fusion debate is quite heated right now, and I personally believe that it works. The whole B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann harassment when it was supposedly 'debunked' in '89 was ridiculous.
Some scientists from here in Canada just recently came up with a very cheap nuclear fusion system.
HERE.
Remember, there is a big difference between conspiracy
theories , and a conspiracy... a theory has no evidence for, whereas the latter does.