New Register Shows Ro-Ro Fleet Much Larger
The theoretical world ro-ro fleet container capacity is almost half that of the world containership fleet. This startling fact emerges from the new Register of Ro-Ro Vessels, just published by international shipping consultants, Westinform.
It has unfortunately been true that in most discussions of the ro-ro concept there has been a dearth of hard facts about the total fleet. Numbers, capacity, age, etc., have largely been unknown, and the details of only relatively few individual vessels have been available.
It is to meet this need for information that the "Westinform Register of Ro-Ro Vessels 1977" has been compiled. The owner and/or operator of every single vessel listed in the Register has been approached in order to obtain the details essential in a ro-ro operation. For example, the total lane length, width and clear height are shown separately for each deck, and at each access point, the location and restrictions as to height width and weight on the ramp are shown.
Westinform have also analyzed the fleet in terms of flag, size and year and build distribution.
Experience gained through processing the information sent in by owners enabled Westinform to calculate the total linear length of the overall fleet, and hence the container capacity. The linear lane length is normally preferred as a measure of ro-ro capacity, compared to gross registered tonnage, and it is claimed that this is the first time that such an assessment of the total length has been published.
The main part of this new Westinform publication is the Register of Vessels, which is in alphabetical order by ships' name.
Train carriers have been distinguished separately as these constitute a very different type of vessel, as have newbuildings on order. Alphabetical ordering by name is not always suitable when the search is according to another categorization, for example, when one is looking for vessels of a particular size, or belonging to a certain owner or manager. This can be a time-consuming process when the fleet is only ordered according to the ship's name, so a cross reference has been provided, grouping vessels in the following ways: in order of gross registered tonnage ; under alphabetical order of owner/manager; under the shipyards that constructed them; under the manufacturer of the engine installed.
The Westinform Register of Ro-Ro Vessels contains over 500 pages of information, including all the standard register details such as Draft, Dwt, Nrt, Grt, Beam, Loa, Speed, etc. Individual copies can be obtained for U.S.
$50 each, including postage, from The Westinform Service, 9 Cork Street, London, England W1X 1PD.
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Content
- BSRA Publishes Code Of Procedure For Marine Equipment page: 4
- Sixth LNG/LPG Meeting Gastech 78 To Be Held Nov. 7-10 In Monte Car page: 4
- Nichols/Pittman/Choate Purchase Cox Interest In Mississippi Marine page: 6
- Japanese Shipbuilders Association Elects Dr. Shinto President page: 6
- Lockheed Shipbuilding Launches First Of Two Sub Tenders Building At Total Cost Of $253 Million page: 7
- Harland And Wolff Building LPG Carriers For Service To U.S. page: 8
- Bethlehem To Reconstruct Four PFEL Ships At Cost Of $5 Million Each page: 8
- Federal Barge Lines Names David Ruffner Manager Eastern Region page: 8
- Newly Formed ASNE Puget Sound Section Holds First Meeting page: 9
- McAllister Adds 4,290-HP Tug To Hampton Roads Fleet page: 9
- Western Gear Corp. Receives $8-Million Contract From Navy page: 10
- Union Mechling Corp. Elects Smail President —Mechling Chairman page: 10
- Model Of National Monument Honoring American Seamen Unveiled On Maritime Day page: 11
- New GE MST-21 9,000-19,000 SHP Steam Turbine Available page: 11
- Research Contracts To Combustion Engineering And Mortada International page: 11
- Hongkong United Dockyards Ltd. Sign Contracts For New Ship Repair Complex page: 12
- LNG-5 . . . Dusseldorf page: 12
- American Bureau Forms Republic Of China Technical Committee page: 13
- Zapata And Dutch Firm To Build And Operate U.S.-Flag Dredges page: 14
- Todd Seattle Lays Keel For Guided Missile Frigate —FFG-10 Is First In A Multi-Ship Navy Program page: 15
- Franz Krautkremer, President Of Schottel, Awarded Medal Of Merit page: 16
- $394,000 Contract To Study Inland Waterways And Gulf Coast Area page: 17
- Sembawang Shipyard Modifies Barges Converted From Tankers page: 18
- N.Y. Propeller Club Elects Hart President page: 19
- $28-Million Contract Awarded To Equitable page: 22
- Louisiana Names Amoss Maritime Man Of The Year page: 23
- Uniflite Receives $1,440,000 Contract For Utility Boats page: 23
- Marland Expanding— Manufacturing Facility Moved To Wisconsin page: 24
- Gulf Mississippi Marine Corp. Awarded Nine-Vessel Contract page: 25
- 260-Foot SEACON Is New Navy Offshore Construction Vessel page: 26
- A.C. Sargent And A.J. Herkes Form Naval Architectural Firm page: 26
- Pacific N.W. Section Hears Paper On Marine Cathodic Protection page: 28
- National Cargo Bureau Reports On '76 Activities page: 29
- Union Mechling Forms Water Analytics Division page: 30
- Design Of A Reheat Turbine page: 31
- BP And Stolt-Nielsen In Shipping Agreement page: 32
- U.S. Steel Orders Colt-Pielstick Engines For Huge Ore Carrier page: 33
- International Paint Announces Promotions And Appointments page: 38
- Raytheon Adopts New Warranty Program page: 38
- Lloyd's Register Pioneers Vibration Monitoring Techniques page: 40
- ABS Forms Republic Of China Technical Committee page: 42
- Modern Wooden Ship — Design And Construction Subject Of SNAME Philadelphia Section Meeting page: 43
- Lockheed Designs Oil Skimmer For Installation In Craft Used In Offshore Cleanup page: 44
- Marathon Introduces Jumbo Bottom-Supported Offshore Platform page: 44
- Seatrain Using Unique Shipbuilding Technique page: 44
- Propulsion Systems, Inc. To Supply Bow Thrusters For Two Ro/Ro Vessels page: 44
- Chairperson Named For Kings Point Museum page: 46
- Dixie Dredge Corp. Appoints James Bishop page: 47
- NYSA And CONASA Reelect James Dickman President page: 47
- Dry Dock Association Elects Massa President page: 50
- Hansen And Tidemann, Inc. Names Mitchell To Head First West Coast Office page: 50
- Delaware Marine Launches Pilot Boat For Port Of Monrovia page: 51
- New Register Shows Ro-Ro Fleet Much Larger page: 51
- Advanced Marine Vehicles Conference Issues Call For Papers page: 52
- ITT Decca Marine Introduces Two New Navigation Aids page: 53
- Singapore Shipbuilders Elect Chua Chor Teck page: 54
- Don McGee Joins Austin Marine, Inc page: 54
- Propulsion Systems, Inc. Appoints John Phinney Engineering Manager page: 55
- World Shipping Statistics 1976 page: 55
- Misener Brochure Describes Facilities At Tampa, Fla. Yard page: 56
- Electro-Nav Names Woolf General Manager San Francisco Office page: 56
- SNAME Los Angeles Section Discusses Use Of Concrete For Marine LNG Tankage page: 56
- San Diego Section Of SNAME Hears Paper On Epoxy Resin Machinery Chocking page: 57
- Raytheon Marine Adds New Series Of Weather Receivers page: 57
- Bethlehem Beaumont To Build Self-Setting Production-Storage Platform For Phillips Petroleum page: 57
- Safety In Marine Applications Course Sponsored By ISA —Washington, D.C., June 27-28 page: 58
- Prudential Installs Fleetwide Preventive Maintenance Program page: 58
- National Cargo Bureau Appoints Captain Gates page: 59
- Maryland Police And United Nations Order Boats From Uniflite page: 60
- Mitsubishi To Convert Sea-Land Containerships page: 61
- Marine Electronics Dealers Establish Reciprocal Service page: 61