{"id":471,"date":"2020-12-14T16:07:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/?p=471"},"modified":"2020-12-14T16:07:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:07:42","slug":"reefers-refrigeration-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/2020\/12\/14\/reefers-refrigeration-vessels\/","title":{"rendered":"Reefers (refrigeration vessels)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reefer or refrigerated cargo carrier is basically a general cargo vessel with well insulated holds. The<br \/>\ncargoes carried are those requiring refrigeration, ie fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, etc.  The cargo is<br \/>\nusually packaged in boxes and palletted.  It has small hatches, its own cargo handling gear and is fast.<br \/>\nThis type of vessel is rapidly being replaced by container vessels carrying refrigerated containers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Design features.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It has well insulated holds which are cooled by brine (salted water) which is cooled by the ship\u2019s refrigeration equipment and pumped through pipes situated in the holds.<\/li>\n<li>It has small hatches through which the packaged cargo is loaded.<\/li>\n<li>It can take refrigerated container as well.<\/li>\n<li>It is fast.<\/li>\n<li>It has its own cranes and \/or derricks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_280\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-280\" src=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/10.2.7_fig_11-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/10.2.7_fig_11-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/10.2.7_fig_11-768x485.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/10.2.7_fig_11-231x146.jpg 231w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/10.2.7_fig_11-50x32.jpg 50w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/10.2.7_fig_11-119x75.jpg 119w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/10.2.7_fig_11.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two reefer vessels.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reefer or refrigerated cargo carrier is basically a general cargo vessel with well insulated holds. The cargoes carried are those requiring refrigeration, ie fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, etc. The cargo is usually packaged in boxes and palletted. It has small hatches, its own cargo handling gear and is fast. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,86,88,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","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-10-2-7-2-8-reefers-refrigeration-vessels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"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=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}