Sunday, April 20, 2014

Topic 14: Water carrier

What the water transport? Water transport is movement by means watercraft. They have many types for the water carrier this is because most domestic in global water carriers transport bulk materials. Such as barge ship, general cargo ship, reefer ship and container ship. They use the ships with large size to transport their products and easy to loading and unloading. Besides that, they have advantages and disadvantages to use the carrier. The need for float is common to watercraft to making the hull a dominant aspect of its construction, maintenance and appearance. Transport by water is significantly less costly different with another transport.
General cargo ship is General cargo vessels carry packaged items like chemicals, foods, furniture, machinery and motor. General cargo vessels carry a broad mix of cargoes, such as forest products, manufactured goods, heavy equipment, vehicles, machinery, bagged goods, steel, food products and containers, which poses challenges to the cargo system. It should be designed for maximum efficiency, optimized cargo space flexibility, compromised weather tightness for sensitive cargoes, fast and reliable port operations as well as for full safety and reliability at sea. The cargo are still built but in small quantities.
Reefer ship is they transport perishable foods such as fruit, vegetables, meat, and dairy. The cargo must be to send the product very require faster delivery. Besides than to protect and condition for one product. Specifically designed and used for shipping perishable commodities which require temperature controlled.
Container ship is Container ships are cargo ship that carry their entire load in truck-size inter-modal containers, in a technique called containerization. They are a common means of commercial inter-modal freight transport and now carry most seagoing non-bulk cargo. Container ship capacity is measured in twenty-foot equivalent units. Typical loads are a mix of 20-foot and 40-foot (2-TEU) ISO-standard containers, with the latter predominant.
Tanker ship is a merchant vessel designed to transport liquids in bulk. Major types of tank ship include the oil tanker, the chemical tanker, and gas carrier. Tankers can range in size of capacity from several hundred tons, which includes vessels for servicing small harbors and coastal settlements, to several hundred thousand tons, for long range haulage. Besides ocean or seagoing tankers there are also specialized inland-waterway tankers which operate on rivers and canals with an average cargo capacity up to some thousand tons.

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