Line freighter
A liner is a cargo ship that operates regularly between two or more specified ports .
Such a line is a network of ship connections set up by a shipping company or other institutions . If a shipping company regularly (e.g. weekly) serves several Japanese ports from Hamburg , it is for them the Japan Line or East Asia Line or they give this line a different name, but always referring to the destination port or ports or whose region indicates.
A liner transports a large number of goods - mainly general cargo, but also bulk cargo - as so-called basic cargo according to a fixed schedule between an often large number of ports of call.
The main characteristics of these ships are large cargo holds, several decks on which the often small loads have to be stowed in such a way that they can be unloaded in the port of destination without being stowed, high-performance cargo gear, special equipment for high-quality goods (lock rooms, cold rooms, sweet oil tanks), heavy cargo cargo gear.
The speed of the line freighters increased from about 8 to 10 knots before the First World War to about 20 to 22 knots in the 1960s.
literature
- Gert Uwe Detlefsen von Hauschild: Schiffahrt im Bild, Liner Freighter Vol. I, II and III, Verlag Hauschild, ISBN 978-3897570320