Comments on: Vehicle Concept Art 8

By: Austin

Austin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:03:16 +0000

RO RO RO YOUR BOAT…

By: Glen Moyes

Glen Moyes — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:14:06 +0000

High volume ports do have their own cranes, in fact many container ships (even in the world of Hackberry Hollow) don’t have their own crane system because they only travel to these high volume ports. But there’s still a need to send cargo to those smaller ports and businesses that have factories at underdeveloped countries may have purchased container ships to send cargo to and from these locations.

So it’s probably not that cost effective to have the cranes on the ship if you are only delivering to high-volume ports that already have massive cranes. With more cranes you could load and unload faster, but I’m not sure how much money you would save by saving time at port; it normally takes 24 hours to fully load a container ship, and I imagine that it costs the shipping company a fair amount of money to use the dock.

Part of what makes this ship a good target for pirates is that it could have a wide range of cargo aboard. Since it’s also a RORO ship it could have vehicles, the on-board cranes make it easier to get to cargo of interest, and because they would commonly ship to low-volume ports and therefore water less traveled, they (the pirates) would be safer.

By: Janell

Janell — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:54:25 +0000

Is this to assume that no port (particularly those mentioned 3rd world countries) have no cranes installed at their docks? Would it truly be more cost-effective to lug cranes everywhere on each ship and risk them being stolen by pirates than to install a set of permanent cranes at a dock? Granted, for how little I know about ships, maybe this is a common installation on real-world ships.

I do like the concept. Hm, actually, I’m now wondering about how naval/marine ships work to dump supplies on random coastlines.

And the color of that water? love.

By: Silverfish

Silverfish — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:34:05 +0000

:O
Pirates.