{"id":463,"date":"2020-12-14T15:34:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T15:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/?p=463"},"modified":"2020-12-14T15:34:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T15:34:54","slug":"ro-ro-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/2020\/12\/14\/ro-ro-vessels\/","title":{"rendered":"Ro-Ro vessels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ro-Ro ships include car ferries, specialist vehicle carriers and general cargo vessels having Ro-Ro capabilities.   They are expensive to build (a 15 000 dwt size costs twice the price of a conventional ship of the same size) and there is a considerable amount of wasted space, but their productivity is very high and they are extremely flexible, ie virtually anything can be rolled on \u2013 containers, heavy loads, large objects.  They do not require special dockside loading facilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Design features.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ro-Ro has a ramp, usually down aft, which is lowered onto the quay during loading\/discharging.<\/li>\n<li>Inside the hull, the decks are connected by fixed ramps.<\/li>\n<li>The holds themselves are very large and interconnected.<\/li>\n<li>Except for the lifting gear to raise and lower the ramp, the ship does not carry or need any other lifting facilities.<\/li>\n<li>Cargo which does not have its own wheels is loaded and moved with the help of fork-lift trucks.<\/li>\n<li>Because of the internal ramps connecting the decks, watertight integrity is a problem for the<br \/>\nRo-Ro.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_287\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-287\" src=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/10.2.7_fig_4-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/10.2.7_fig_4-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/10.2.7_fig_4-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/10.2.7_fig_4-207x146.jpg 207w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/10.2.7_fig_4-50x35.jpg 50w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/10.2.7_fig_4-106x75.jpg 106w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/10.2.7_fig_4.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ro-Ro vessel Polaris Leader.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ro-Ro ships include car ferries, specialist vehicle carriers and general cargo vessels having Ro-Ro capabilities. They are expensive to build (a 15 000 dwt size costs twice the price of a conventional ship of the same size) and there is a considerable amount of wasted space, but their productivity is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,86,88,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-2-seamanship","category-10-2-7-sea-transport-operations","category-10-2-7-2-types-of-trading-vessels","category-10-2-7-2-4-ro-ro-vessels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}