TYPE OF CONTAINER SHIP

 

TYPE OF CONTAINER SHIP

The progress of shipping science and technology, especially the handling of cargo shipping in 1970, began to use containers. A container ship or container ship is a ship specifically designed to transport containers. Usually, such ships will be equipped with tools for container holder and support, such as: container BASE CONE or what is often called container foot or container shoes as well as the container it transports. Below the author describes about several types of container ship carriers. (Arso Martopo, Cargo Handling 2001, p. 73).

Container carrier ships are ships and their equipment such as BOOM (loading rods) and faucets that have sufficient strength sufficient to transport containers, or if these ships do not have loading and unloading equipment, the ships in question are ships. -ships specially designed to transport containers

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A description of the types of container ships and their equipment and all work including calculations can be described as follows: (A.H Tumbel, Containers and their Handling 1991, p. 65).

Semi Container Ship

Semi-container ship is a ship that is usually used to transport containers or containers together with break bulk cargo or goods that are not in containers or in other words the cargo that is normally wrapped conventionally on the ship's parts there are holes. installation of the base cone if it will be loaded with containers and is also on the deck. These ships are usually not installed, which will prevent break bulk cargo, besides that the space for break bulk cargo will also be reduced.

Full Container Ship

This type of ship is usually only used to transport containers. In the cargo rooms, cell guides have been installed so that the containers that will be put into the cargo rooms can be easily directed through the cell guides. There are ships that build special cells for 20-foot containers but generally make cells for 40 feet.