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  2. International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes Code - Wikipedia

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    It provides information on the dangers of cargo, as well as procedures for loading and unloading of cargoes. [2] Cargoes are categorized according to three cargo groups: A, B and C. [5] Group A refers to cargoes that may liquefy.

  3. Stowage plan for container ships - Wikipedia

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    It may be possible to pack such cargo in specialty containers. Open top containers are suitable for too-tall cargo and flat rack containers can accommodate over height, over width or over weight cargo. Container platforms can handle over height, width or length cargo, but require slings to load and unload.

  4. Lift-on/lift-off - Wikipedia

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    Ships with cranes or other cargo handling equipment on-board are also termed geared vessels. As container ships usually have no on-board cranes or other mechanism to load or unload their cargo, they are therefore dependent on dockside container cranes to load and unload. However lift-on/lift-off vessels can load and unload their own cargo ...

  5. Breakbulk cargo - Wikipedia

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    Wind turbine towers being unloaded at a port Stevedores on a New York dock loading barrels of corn syrup onto a barge on the Hudson River.Photo by Lewis Hine, circa 1912. In shipping, break-bulk, breakbulk, [2] or break bulk cargo, also called general cargo, is goods that are stowed on board ships in individually counted units.

  6. Liquefied natural gas terminal - Wikipedia

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    They may be capable of handling LNG tankers of 70,000 to 217,000 cubic metres (m 3) cargo capacity ; or tankers of 125,000 to 266,000 m 3 cargo capacity . [9] The pier would have at least two insulated lines, one for loading and/or unloading LNG and one for vapor supply or recovery as the vapor space above the LNG changes as the cargo is ...

  7. Disembarkation - Wikipedia

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    The loading and unloading of cargo has traditionally been handled by stevedores, also known as longshoremen, wharfies, etc. Today, the vast majority of non- bulk cargo is transported in intermodal containers , [ 3 ] which are loaded and unloaded using specialized cranes .

  8. Ground support equipment - Wikipedia

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    Container loaders, also known as cargo loaders or "K loaders", are used for the loading and unloading of containers and pallets into and out of aircraft. The loader has two platforms which raise and descend independently. The containers or pallets on the loader are moved with the help of built-in rollers or wheels.

  9. Intermodal freight transport - Wikipedia

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    Clause 2 — The loading capacity of containers must be such that their total weight (load, plus tare) is: 5 tonnes (4.92 long tons; 5.51 short tons) for containers of the heavy type; 2.5 tonnes (2.46 long tons; 2.76 short tons) for containers of the light type; a tolerance of 5 percent excess on the total weight is allowable under the same ...