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In cross-island and even cross-country expedition industries, ships has been the backbone of trading activities. Every ship type has it’s own special role, with their unique load capability. These are few examples of ship types, including their powers and the time needed to travel:
The load capacity of these ships ranges between a few thousand tonnes, up to more than 50.000 tons. Ship’s dimension is a huge factor when talking about load capacity and engine power. This allows ships to sail with the speed matching it’s size. Generally, general cargo ships took a few days to weeks to arrive to their destination, depending on the distance, route, ship’s speed and the ocean’s weather and condition.
Bulk Carrier has quite a large load capacity, reaching few hundred thousands tons. But this capacity also affected with the ship’s dimension and engine power. Travel time also usually takes days to weeks. Other factors including distance, route and speed also affect the travel time. Other than that, weather and the ocean’s condition also affect the ship’s travel time.
Container ships has load capacity that is measured using TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit). Modern container ship has an amazing load capacity, reaching 20.000 TEU and even more. This capacity unit allows ships to load thousands of standard 20 foot containers. The ship’s engine varies regarding to the size of the ship. The engine is designed to provide an adequate power to make ship sails with an efficient speed.
A container ship’s travel time highly depend on a few factors. Voyage between 2 locations can take weeks and even months. Weather factor, maritime traffic and load/unload procedure at the port contributes to the ship’s travel time.
Roll on-Roll off Ships designed specifically to load vehicles and other loads with wheel such as trucks and trailers. The load capacity depends on what vehicle it can carry and the ship’s size. The ship’s engine is also designed to allow for efficient travel speed. This ship’s travel time took hours to days, depending on the distance, route and ship’s speed.
Tanker has the load capacity in hundreds of thousand tons. Tankers also specialized to load mostly liquids, such as crude oil, oil products, chemicals or liquified natural gas. The ship’s engine varies depending on the ship’s size. The ship’s engine is also designed to allow for efficient travel speed. The engine power is crucial to keep the ship’s load capacity and productivity.
Tankers usually travel in days to weeks, depending on the distance and route. Aside from that, the weather and ocean’s condition is also a factor in travel speed.
Take note that the travel time can vary wildly. Depending on route, travel speed and weather.
Knowing about ship’s type, we can identify what ship we need to deliver our goods. Tarunacipta Kencana, as a ship agency commited to give integrated logistic support and optimizing the shipping efficiency. Allowing you to focus on your core bussiness. As your partner, we also took part in coordinating load/unload activities and fulfilling any document for your ship.
