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Wow, I havent heard of LASH for decades. Something about the massive bulk container ports being more cost effective over a certain point, they claim, but LASH are far more flexible. After all, a barge can tie up at many more points than a single container port.
Load up a barge with containers, slot barges onto carrier? Its like that old nugget. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of CDs barreling down the highway. Or these days, a Pidgeon carrying a stack of microSD cards.
How long now before any of the normally flight capable species discover they can actually fly, and the parrots cant?
CaveTrolls?
Oh dear.
Noone ever fills in clear and simple reports. Instead of all the forms, the first simple warning should be written in blood, There Are Monsters On Earth.
aw more survivors = more excitement.
and a hole new crew to learn about.
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They're indeed a dead hull type nowadays. A big problem I heard was the rather long cycling time in port compared to container carriers, in addition to the concept being crippled by western legislations that required each of the barges (which are essentially just floating boxes, the reason why Rhine Forest is carrying a fleet of tugs) to have complete equipment a.k.a. lights, anchors, winches,... That drove up the cost to such a point nobody could run a line for profit with those. In this story, Rhine Forest had been reflagged in Liberia and was supposed to go work in the gulf of Guinea, which would have made her viable.
Funny thing: Rhine's sister ship, MS München of Hapag-Lloyd disappeared with all hands in a storm. The loss was attributed to rogue waves.
Poor saps have most of their progress stunted by their own safety culture, which is why Boris and Vadim had to sneak around to train their flight. It can be hard for the whole crew to wrap their heads around the fact it's not dangerous and actually healthy for flight-abled species to train like that, and the Captain's very partial about undertaking anything that could result in severe injury, in particular when one of the potential casualties could be his only medically certified Officer.
Pardon me for asking, but having no experience with surface or merchant fleets, I have to ask this. What is a LASH?
I must say I'm enjoying the learning I'm getting of life on the surface.
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LASH stands for Lighter (which is a synonym for barge) Aboard SHip.
It's a specific type of barge carrier that makes use of a crane system to lift 400t barges onboard. There are two prongs that extend aft of the hull, barges are pushed by tugs underneath and then the gantry crane can roll over them and pick them up. To give you an idea of such a vessel's capacity, what data I could find on Rhine Forest told me she could carry 80 such barges, bringing her at a pure cargo capacity of 30.000 tons (without counting the bunkers and ballast that is, her actual gross deadweight is closer to 45.000 tons).
There is another system for barge carrier. It's called the Sea Bee system. In that case the barges were much bigger and the ship would lower her stern in the water via ballasting, allowing the barges to be pushed directly on board onto a lift system which could move them onto holding racks inside. With that one we're talking 850t of cargo per barge, for about the same cargo capacity per ship.
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Okay, I see now. I know of the system, but I have never heard the term 'LASH' before. What little I really know about barges is of the riverine type, not the blue water type. The style you call Sea Bee, the system is reminiscent of putting a sub into drydock, which I have done twice in my career.
Thanks for the info.
Has anyone considered an online, shipboard bulletin board for the Amandine? I would love to read about simple notices for off-hours gaming parties to engagement announcements. For example, “My future husband and I are getting married soon, and we need to find someone who can remake a tuxedo for him and a wedding dress for me.”