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Lash Turkiye 1971 in Piraeus Yulius Fuchik, a Soviet and later Ukrainian barge carrier based on the Sea Bee system. LASH barges are loaded at inland river and shallow ports. Then, the barges are towed to ocean port's fleeting areas to meet the LASH mother vessel. On arrival, the mother vessel crane lifts the LASH barges onto the ships.
The carrier ships are also known as LASH carriers, barge carriers, kangaroo ships and lighter transport ships. Barges are load into the ship from the rear-stern of the ship. Two barge-lighters weighing up to 1,000 metric tons placed onto an underwater platform. The ship raises the platform up to the deck. On the deck are special rails to move ...
Fulcrum Maritime Systems - Vessel Tracking, ... ranging from 500 to over 2000 gross weight tons ... tankers, bulk carriers and container ships as well as fishing vessels.
OOCL G-class container ship Container ship: 399.9 m (1,312 ft) 61.3 m (201 ft) 235,341: In service COSCO Shipyard Group: OOCL: ONE Innovation: ONE I-class container ship Container ship: 399.9 m (1,312 ft) 61.4 m (201 ft) 235,311: In service Japan Marine United Corporation: Ocean Network Express: Nissei Maru: Globtik Tokyo class Supertanker
On container ships the position of containers are identified by a bay-row-tier coordinate system. The bays illustrate the cross sections of the ship and are numbered from bow to stern . The rows run the length of the ship and are numbered from the middle of the ship outwards, even numbers on the port side and odd numbers on the starboard side.
Although each barge could be loaded with 15 standard 20-foot shipping containers, they could also be carried on the cargo decks and even moved around with the barge-handling equipment. Using special container adapters on the cargo rails, Yulius Fuchik could carry 1,312 loaded containers plus an additional 240 empty containers on the upper deck ...
Roll-on/Roll-off car carrying ship being boarded by articulated haulers at the Port of Baltimore RoRo ports and inland waterways of the United States. Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro) ships are cargo ships designed to carry wheeled cargo, such as cars, motorcycles, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, buses, trailers, and railroad cars, that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels or using ...
An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, or cargo container, (or simply "container") is a large metal crate designed and built for intermodal freight transport, meaning these containers can be used across different modes of transport – such as from ships to trains to trucks – without unloading and reloading their cargo. [1]