{"id":299,"date":"2015-09-30T10:45:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T10:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/?p=299"},"modified":"2015-11-28T14:39:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T14:39:14","slug":"ro-ro-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/ro-ro-ships\/","title":{"rendered":"Ro-ro ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These ships have holds that do not have hatches. Cargo is loaded and discharged via a ramp in the stern. (Some have a ramp in the bow as well.) The cargo is driven on (\u201c<strong>ro<\/strong>lled on\u201d) and driven off (\u201c<strong>ro<\/strong>lled off\u201d) the ship \u2013 hence the term <strong>RO-RO<\/strong>. Down below, there are few (if any)transverse bulkheads in the holds and therefore the hold looks rather like a large parking garage.<\/p>\n<p>The ships are also used to carry vehicles that can be driven on and off the ship. Vehicle carriers load cargoes of vehicles at Durban, East London and Port Elizabeth where there are vehicle assembly factories.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the ro-ro ramp, these ships can be used to carry large or bulky items of cargo (e.g. large machinery, mining equipment, factory parts) that can be rolled on and off the ship. This type of cargo is often called <strong><em>project cargo<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>[new_royalslider id=&#8221;7&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These ships have holds that do not have hatches. Cargo is loaded and discharged via a ramp in the stern. (Some have a ramp in the bow as well.) The cargo is driven on (\u201crolled on\u201d) and driven off (\u201crolled off\u201d) the ship \u2013 hence the term RO-RO. Down below, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-1-1-5-7-ro-ro-ships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}