Feeder ship
A feeder vessel ( english feeder vessel or feeder ship .. V English to feed feed, ',' supply ') is a specifically for container - built or car transport cargo ship , which operates as a supplier and distributor for large ships and seaports. The term is primarily used for container transport. The cargo is handled at the container terminals .
Designs and equipment
Feeder ships can be equipped with their own loading gear and thus also call at small ports without high-performance container bridges or cranes. Feeder ships are a modern form of coasters .
This type of ship works as a feeder and distributor for the large container and car terminals in seaports and deep-water ports , which large to very large ships can call at. From and to these ports, a feeder transports cargoes to small coastal, canal and inland ports or remote ports that are used by the container ships used for overseas transport, e.g. B. not be started for economic reasons. Another reason can be ports with insufficient draft and too few berths with the infrastructure necessary for handling .
Depending on the area of application, different ship sizes are summarized under the term feeder ship. In Europe, most of these ships can transport a few hundred standard containers ( TEU ), with the largest ships used in traffic to the Baltic Sea ports ( Baltic Max Feeder ) carrying around 1400 TEU. Feeder ships with a capacity of well over 1,000 TEU also operate in East Asia .
Since the opening of the enlarged Panama Canal in mid-2016 (as of mid-2017), the charter rates for Panamax ships have fallen sharply; these ships compete with smaller feeder container ships.
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Footnotes
- ^ E. Kahveci, T. Nichols: The Other Car Workers: Work, Organization and Technology in the Maritime Car Carrier Industry , Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006, ISBN 0-230-20938-6 , pp. 71, 144.
- ↑ Hansa , Vol. 146, August 2009, p. 77.