Car Carrier Vessels, Ocean freight, Car Transport

Car transport is a difficult job and getting the vehicles to American buyers is a time consuming affair. You only have to drive down an American road to realise how popular Japanese and Korean vehicles are to Americans, but how many people know exactly how the vehicles get to America? A small minority of Americans probably know that the vehicles they desire are brought across the oceans on huge car carrier transport vessels that travel back and forth in a constant parade of titanic ships.
The car carrier vessels that bring the cars from across the seas are specially designed to handle the unique freight carrying requirements of vehicles, such as their large size and weight, which requires they use a roll-on/roll-off freight handling method. In addition, these vessels are built for speed, believe it or not, and the desire to make them faster does influence the design of car carrier vessels.
In order to safely load as many cars as possible onto a car carrier ship designers have logically arranged the decks and implemented ramps on car carrier vessels, in order to make handling the vehicles a lot more efficient during loading, transport and unloading. Space age car carrier vessels plying the oceans of the world today use decks that can move to allow them to take on cars of various volumes and weights. The newer ones even have on board cranes that they use to unload and load containers. Using the systems in use these car carrier vessels can load hundreds of cars per hour in a safe and professional manner and bring vehicles to markets around the world.

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