[QUOTE=Kennebec Captain;146145]Yeah, It’s been a long time since I worked up there.
The ship I worked on had about 30,000 cubic feet of cargo space which is roughly 10 containers. Plus we had two reefer containers on the back deck for 12 total. I don’t know how many containers those barges carry but it’s considerably more then that.
The SeaLand D-7s are likely the smallest ship where the economics favors fully inspected ships. Everything smaller then that but more then 500 tons is going to go by barge.
BTW how do they load the containers? By forklift or crane?[/QUOTE]
At at the fish plants it’s by crane. It’s often a quick touch and go on the same tide with just a handful of containers. At the freight docks it’s either by crane, “pass pass” between a forklift on the dock and a forklift on the barge, or it’s running a forklift up and down a ramp.