TRANSPORTABLE, FLOATING, BULK GRAIN UNLOADING PORT FACILITIES

The movement of grain is a major activity of the U.S.-flag ocean transportation system. Efficient handling of grain at foreign destination ports affects the cost of ocean freight, and therefore has a direct impact on the U.S. shipping industry, the government, the farming sector and other commercial interests. Off-loading facilities at destination ports are often inadequate or inefficient. Shallow draft berths, long vessel-waiting times, and inefficient off-loading operations all have adverse effects on the cost of ocean freight. The author suggests that the development of a floating, bulk grain-unloading facility that would be readily transportable by LASH barges aboard a mother vessel is a solution to the problem and is both technically and financially feasible.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Report
• Corporate Authors:

  Lembeck Associates, Incorporated

  8300 College Boulevard
  Overland Park, KS  United States 

  Maritime Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Lembeck, H G
• Publication Date: 1989-8

Media Info

• Pagination: Various p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Cargo handling; Costs; Feasibility analysis; Freight traffic; Grain; LASH barges; Loading and unloading; Marine terminals; Port structures; Ports; Rates
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cost analysis; Freight rates; Grain trade
• Old TRIS Terms: Unloading systems
• Subject Areas: Finance; Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00658121
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Maritime Technical Information Facility
• Contract Numbers: DTMA91-87-C-70014
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 21 1994 12:00AM