Explore: Discharged Cargo

comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers. Although usually situated on a sea coast or estuary

to carry out. Self-discharging ships use conveyor belts with load rates of around 1,000 tons per hour. Once the cargo is discharged, the crew begins to

self-discharger (or self-unloader) is a ship that is able to discharge its cargo using its own gear. The most common discharge method for bulk cargo is

each port of call as container are discharged or re-stowed and new containers are taken on board. Refrigerated cargo units – Container vessels are equipped

(91 cm) of hog before refitting in the mid-1990s. During loading and discharging cargo, ships bend (hog or sag) due to the distribution of the weights in

the Fiji Islands on 19 February. She reached Nadi on 28 February, discharged her cargo, and reversed her course back toward the Hawaiian Islands. After

American Legion discharged her cargo and disembarked her passengers into tank lighters and motor launches over the days that followed, the cargo movement facilitated

vessel, trading vessel, or merchantman is a watercraft that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire. This is in contrast to pleasure craft, which

discharge wastewater or unload cargo, and discharged at the next port of call, wherever more cargo is loaded. Ballast water discharge typically contains a variety

the remaining discharge of oil-contaminated water and increases the amount of cargo discharged, providing a further benefit to the cargo owner. Crude oil