Lol sorry to say but no Tanner.  The ship is a cargo ship, carrying in quite a bit of illegal hardware, Lexcorp laser weapons mostly, into Chinese Triad hands, and the ship also happened to be carrying Jade, Aremis's evil sister who's working with the League of Shadows.  So, no, the ship had nothing to do with hunting whales of any kind.  :P  We've already gotten that far, with Jade getting her ass kicked by Artemis and left tied up, sedated, and waiting for pickup by the police once Artemis and Kate investigate the ship, half expecting another Shadow to pop up, or more reinforcements from the Triads to unload the ship.  But yeah, not sure how all these things go together really, the Shadows, Lexcorp smuggled weapons tech, and the Triads I mean.  That's what is really holding me up at the moment.