ocean liner, one of the two principal types ofmerchant shipas classified by operating method; the other is thetramp steamer. A liner operates on a regular schedule ofdesignatedports,carryingwhatever cargo and passengers are available on the date of sailing. The first liners were operated in the...
The trade that made the greatest green strides forward (against the baseline) is the Far East to US East Coast, scoring a CEI of 84.3 in Q4 2022. This has been achieved with an 8.5% increase in the average vessel size, an 8.9% decrease in average speed (down 1.5 knots) and a 0.4 ...
yet these maritime people may have been the first to build a warship designed as such from thekeelup, rather than as a modification of a merchant ship. Thus it was probably the Minoans who began todifferentiatebetween war craft and merchantmen and between the rowing galley and sailing vessel...
they are capable of sailing independently through ice up to 1.8 meters thick and operating at temperatures down to minus 45 degrees Centigrade. The design of these vessels takes into account the specific features of the Gulf of Ob, and allows the tankers to...