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how to join container ship in merchant navy

The container ship or Boxship is the great success story of the last 40 years.

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how to join container ship in merchant navy

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  1. What is ContainerShip? What is ContainerShip? Any Questions Email us at apply@careerinmerchantnavy.comand Our Officer will ready to help you in any...

  2. Container Ship In 1937, a New Jersey truck driver named Malcolm McLean, sitting in his truck at the New Jersey Docks suddenly had a novel idea. Instead of large numbers of stevedores having to manually load cargo, why not create a standard shaped box into which goods can be handled in a standard way. His idea took 20years before the first container transit was undertaken (with his own money, because no ship owners would listen to his idea). In 1969 Malcolm McLean retired as a multi - millionaire!!! Any Questions Email us at apply@careerinmerchantnavy.comand Our Officer will ready to help you in any... The container ship or Boxship is the great success story of the last 40 years. General cargo was historically carried in dry cargo vessels, without any particular specialization. Cargo loading and unloading was always a low laborious task, due to the varying shapes, sizes, weights and fragility of the numerous cargoes being carried on any one vessel. The idea of standardizing the carrying box, or container at 20 feet long was a breakthrough that allowed for vessels to be designed to lift, stack and store these specific shapes.

  3. Any Questions Email us at apply@careerinmerchantnavy.comand Our Officer will ready to help you in any... So, from a "back of the fag -packet" idea was born the container ship. Initially, these were small vessels of up to 10,000DWT, carrying no more than a few hundred TEU (Twenty foot Equivalent Units), but have grown in size as the success and economies of these vessels have become more obvious. Today's container ships are being built to take 9,500 T.E.U with plan afoot to build 10-12,000 T.E.U. ships. As well as the Twenty foot container, many goods needs larger boxes, so there is a larger standard sized container, the FEU (Forty Foot Equivalent unit). On board a modern containership, the complex method of loading the TEU and FEU in an order that will facilitate offloading at the other end is now largely computerized. These vessels are built for speed, and can reach upwards of 28 knots, moving cargoes around the globe. Through transport or inter- modal transport means that these containers can be offloaded from a ship, and rapidly loaded onto trains or onto container lorries for onward transport to the place of delivery.

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