Lighten

Video: The coal-laden freighter KVB Maranta ran aground on August 19, 2013 in Cologne on the Deutzer Platte , a shoal between the Severinsbrücke and Deutzer Brücke at Rhine kilometer 687.5. The motor dredger "Josef Lülsdorf" lightened the coal onto the cargo ship Toros with a Liebherr 944 hydraulic excavator

Lighter (from Middle High German līhtern, "lighter, lighter") means to make a loaded ship lighter by removing part of the cargo with the aim of reducing the ship's draft (i.e. its unloading depth). This is necessary if, due to low water (the inland waterway operators also call it “small water”), it is no longer possible to continue with the original unloading depth due to the risk of grounding.

variants

Lightening from ship to ship: Part of the cargo is reloaded from one ship to another.

Lighter from ship to stock: Forwarding agents, shipping companies and other companies that have settled in the port can also lighten from ship to stock. The removed part of the load is temporarily stored and later transported on.

Lightening from ship to truck or train: Especially goods that have to be delivered as punctually as possible are also moved from ship to truck or train and then delivered directly to their destination.

Individual evidence

↑ Jürgen Martin: The 'Ulmer Wundarznei'. Introduction - Text - Glossary on a monument to German specialist prose from the 15th century. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1991 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Volume 52), ISBN 3-88479-801-4 (also medical dissertation Würzburg 1990), p. 147.

[1] Jürgen Martin: The 'Ulmer Wundarznei'. Introduction - Text - Glossary on a monument to German specialist prose from the 15th century. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1991 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Volume 52), ISBN 3-88479-801-4 (also medical dissertation Würzburg 1990), p. 147.