ROLL-ON/ROLL OFF SHIPS, VEHICLE CARRIERS

- carry wheeled cargo (cargo on wheels): automobiles, trucks, semi-trailer trucks,

trailers, railroad cars
- LoLo ships or Lift-on/Lift-off ships use a crane to load and unload cargo
- RORO vessels use their own ramps to allow the cargo to be driven on wheels on
the ship

Roll-on/Roll on vessels are:

 cruise ferries,
 ferries,
 cargo ships,
 Barges
 Pure Car Carriers (PCC only for cars)
 Pure Truck and Car Carries (PCTC for trucks and cars)
LIMs – lanes in meters is a measure for cargo capacity
MS Color Magic – the largest ro-ro passenger ferry (75,100 GT, length of
223,70m, beam 35m, 1270 LIM)
Ulysses – has the greatest car-carrying capacity (length 209,02m, beam
31,84m, 4101LIM)

Advantages of a ro-ro ships:

1. Speed of loading and unloading cargoes
2. It integrates well with other transport development (i.e.containers)
3. Convenient for carrying private cars, too (tourist industry)

Basic terms:
Semi-trailer trucks – poluprikolica s tegljačem
Trailer – prikolica s tegljačem
Railroad cars – vagoni
Self-propelled modular transporter (tugmaster) – tegljač prikolica
Efficiently – učinkovito
Lane – parkirna staza/traka za vozila na ro-ro brodu
Shipper – otpremnik, krcatelj
 THE CONTAINER SHIP

 uses shore based cargo handling equipment (gantry cranes or portainers)

 The first crane designed for container work – built in Alameda (California) in 1959
 Hatch openings stretch the entire breadth of the holds to fasten loading and
unloading
 Cell guides are installed into holds to provide support and to facilitate stowage
 Compartments (bays) are numbered from 01 (towards the bow) to 40 (at stern)
 20'containers are numbered with odd numbers
 40' containers are numbered with even numbers
 Row –from front of the ship to aft
 Tier – from the bottom to the top
 Bays – from port to starboard
 Slot on starboard – odd numbers
 Slots on port side – even numbers
The dimension of containers: 20's, 40's, and 45' foot (which fits only above
the deck)
TEU Twenty- foot Equivalent Units

Basic terms:
Container gantry crane (portainer) – Portalna dizalica ili portalni granik (dizalica koja ima
vozno postolje u obliku portala (vrata) koja čini okvirnu metalnu konstrukciju s okomitim
nogama spojenima s vodoravnim nosačem )
Dedicated – namjenski
Tarpaulin – cerada
Batten – letva
Cell guide – vodilica

LIQUID BULK CARGO SHIPS

- Tankers : Oil carriers, Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC-180 to 320 thousand DWT), Ultra
Large Crude Carriers (ULCC-300 to 500 thousand DWT), LPG, LNG ships
Tankers – double hull
- Tanks (heating coils to keep the cargo liquid)
- Ballast tanks
- Wing tanks – for ballast water
- SBT-s (Segregated Ballast Tanks are only for water ballast)
 - Carry their own cargo handling gear ( pumps, pipes, manifolds)
- Spray pumps pump out liquid LNG for fuel, for cooling down the tanks, for
cleaning 'stripping' out tanks )
- Aframax (Average Freight Rate Assessment) – 80 to 119 thousand DWT
- Capesize (150 to 400 thousand DWT: VLCC, ULCC, VLOC, ULOC)
- Chinamax (380 to 400 thousand DWT)
- Handymax ( 50 to 60 thousand DWT, small vessels)
- Malaccamax (the largest ships that can pass the Strait off Malacca)
- Panamax / the New Panamax ( the largest ships that can pass the Panama
Canal)
- Suezmax (pass through the majority ports), 120 to 200 thousand DWT
LPG -Liquified Petroleum Gas
- Butane and Propane-carried at pressure or at low temperaturen,-50℃, or in
combination of the two
- Cargo tanks of cylllindrical shape made of aluminium alloy, self supporting, free
standing
LNG – Liquified Natural Gas
- Methane carried at -163℃
- Ethane carried at - 104℃
- Tanks are prismatic, insulated by aluminium
- Hold contains three tanks each
- Cargo cannot be pressurised alone
Two systems in design:
- the Moss system (spherical tanks made from aluminium alloy and a steel outer
shell)
- The membrane system (fully in hull integrated tanks)
Chemical Tankers: Carry chemicals in bulk
- Chapter 17 of MARPOL -International Bulk Chemical Code- to protect the
enviroment
- Tanks have heating system to maintain viscosity of some cargoes
- Tanks are protected against explosion by inert gas blankets
- Tanks also have protective coatings
- Modern Chemical carriers have tanks, pipes and pumping systems made of stainless
steel