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What Is Barge and Various Kinds
What Is Barge and Various Kinds
Barge or pontoons have flat hull or shaped a large box that floats, construction a barge without a
shipboard system in general. A barge used for transporting cargo and drawn by tugs or used to
accommodate shatt which dependent current the tides like a river and shallow port.
A barge not having a machine ( unpropelled ) that it must be drawn by tugs. Tug boat and barge
inseparable. It can be said Inseparable because, without barge, tugboat can not carry much cargo. But
because a barge unpropelled so tug boat role as barge motors. In the process berthing / unberthing a
barge need help at least 1 tug boat additional, because in manufacturing a barge different from ships
in general.
1. Loading Conveyor
loading process starts from stockpile cargo loaded using conveyor from above a barge. Altitude
conveyor must above the height of a barge to cargo be loaded maximum. Loading with this method
have requirements quantity cargo conveyor must be stable and supplies stockpile must charge enough,
so that the stability of barge and cargo can reach.
*Note :
-180 ft Barge = Capacity 2000 MT
-200 ft Barge = Capacity 2500 MT
-230 ft Barge = Capacity 3000 MT
-250 ft Barge = Capacity 3500 MT
-270 ft Barge = Capacity 5000 MT
-270 ft jumbo Barge = Capacity 7000 MT
-300 ft banci Barge = Capacity 7000 MT
-300 ft Barge = Capacity 8000 MT
-330 ft Barge = Capacity 9000 ton
-330ft jumbo Barge = Capacity 11.000 MT