A 20,000-TON TUG/BARGE COMBINATION

In 1971 the need arose for replacing a 6,700-dwt tanker operated by Compania Shell de Venezula on a 250-mile coastal route for the carriage of crude and refined oil products and LPG. A cost analysis made at the time indicated that it would be cheaper to replace the vessel by a secondhand GP tanker than to subsitute a tug/barge combination. The problem was re-examined in 1972/73, by when there had been a large increase in the volume of cargo to be transported and the choice then lay between acquiring a new GP tanker of about 20,000 dwt or a tug/barge combination. Cost estimates favoured the latter. A deep-notch, non-rigid connecting system between tug and barge is used and the barge is fitted with 16 cargo tanks and all the cargo-handling, pumping, and other equipment of the conventional GP tanker.

• Corporate Authors:

  International Tug Convention (4th)

  New Orleans, LA  United States 
• Authors:
  • Nout, G
• Publication Date: 1975-10

Media Info

• Pagination: 9 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Barges; Economic analysis; Economics; Towed barges; Tug ship interaction; Tugboats
• Old TRIS Terms: Economic analysis (Tug barges); Integrated tug barge systems; Ship descriptions (Tug barge); Tug barge economics
• Subject Areas: Design; Economics; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00152893
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: British Ship Research Association
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 11 1977 12:00AM