The need to provide an efficient cargo hold ventilation system on ships to ensure the quality of transported items is critical. Such a system is required to minimize the formation of condensation in cargo spaces, remove potentially hazardous gases, and lower the detrimental heating of cargo being transported. An efficient cargo hold ventilation system, therefore,…
Although there has been a boom in the industry of renewable energy companies, the global market is still massively dependent on using and consuming oil. Across the world and as of 2020, there was a fleet of 810 different crude oil carriers working for different companies. These carriers are incredibly large and need a massive…
Cargo ships are classified according to their sizes as well as the fuel they can carry. For instance, Panamax size cargo ships can carry approximately 5,700 MT up to 8,000 MT, meanwhile, Post-Panamax size cargo ships can carry roughly between 9,500 MT to 13,000 MT of fuel. For New-Panamax sizes of cargo ships, they can…
Are you curious about the speed of a cargo ship steaming worldwide? Most of the ships seem to be very slow for people not involved in the industry, but some top speeds of the HSC Francisco will impress anyone – 58,1 knots or 107,6 km/h. However, the average speed of a cargo ship is much…
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The structure of a ship is subject to strain during loading and bad weather conditions. The strain or load likely to be encountered by the ship’s structure constitutes perhaps one of the most formidable problems faced by ship officers during cargo operations. The two main types of cargo loads that are considered when loading a…
A Bill of Lading is a binding legal document between the consigner and the carrier in the shipment of goods and specifies the nature of goods being transported to the consignee. There are different types of Bills of Lading, and basically, the most important in shipment include To Order Bill of Lading, Claused Bill of…
Whenever you import some goods, whether as an individual or as an agent, there are other parties that are involved until you receive the goods. There is you as the consignee, a consigner or the shipper, and a notify party. A consignee is an individual, a client, or an entity that receives the shipment from…
As the shipping industry was expanding in the early 2000s, there was a need for vessels more efficient than Panamax-designed ships. To address this, an innovative idea of a ship was conceptualized around the year 2005. Hence, the Kansarmax was launched, to carry more cargo, be fuel-efficient, wave and wind-resistant, and still flexible enough to…
For a ship to be commercially viable for carrying cargo the spaces on board need to be optimally utilized. This means cargo cannot be dumped haphazardly into the cargo spaces but rather must be loaded in an organized manner. This is done through careful planning and the result of such careful planning is a cargo…