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Do all of the containers sit on top of the ship? What's in the hold? Is it just more containers? Are there refrigerated sections? Frozen sections? Tanks?
by comrade1 12y ago
Do all of the containers sit on top of the ship? What's in the hold? Is it just more containers? Are there refrigerated sections? Frozen sections? Tanks?
- snowmaker 12y agoThere are containers in the hold, and then more containers stacked on top of them and on the deck. All modern container ships are built this way. Refrigeration is done within containers - some containers have their own refrigeration units.
- bkor 12y agoTo add: Those reefer containers have to be stored in a special section of a vessel (where they can be plugged into power). Frozen vs refrigerated is just the temperature setting. These reefer containers are usually to keep the temperature of a product. Meaning: they're not meant to freeze a product to e.g. -20 Celcius, though "not meant" and practice can differ a bit :-P
- aragot 12y agoIn case you're asking for an order of magnitude, the last vessel presented on HN talked about 10 levels of containers outside and 11 inside. I recommend at least looking at the pictures. And they're building 20 of those ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8476222 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8476222 http://alastairphilipwiper.com/blog/building-largest-ship-world-south-korea/ http://alastairphilipwiper.com/blog/building-largest-ship-wo...
- cybergibbons 12y agoIt looks like this inside the hold: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cybergibbons/278358038/in/set-72157594343142249 https://www.flickr.com/photos/cybergibbons/278358038/in/set-...