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ROLL-ON/ ROLL-OFF SHIPS

A Roll-On / Roll-Off [Ro-Ro]

specifically
designed to carry wheeled and tracked vehicles as
all or most of its cargo.
Vehicles are driven or towed on and off the ship
by means of either the ship's own ramps or shorebased ramps.
Roll-on / roll-off cargo handling systems refer to
systems used when the cargo can be rolled onto
the vessel.
Another type of Ro-Ro system uses fork lifts to
load cargo (the fork lifts roll the cargo on and off
the deck).
These systems reduce costs associated with cargo
loading (expensive crane systems and skilled
crane operators are not required).
Advantage
to call on smaller and lessdeveloped ports.
The disadvantage
the waste of cargo
carrying capacity due to undercarriage and allaround clearance requirements.

quarter stern ramp (krmena

rampa)
2. finger flaps (klapna /
poklopac)
3. actuating cables (pogonski)
4. stern door (krmena vrata)
5. king post (teretni stup /
nosa)
6. trunk (ventilacijski kanal)
7. ventilator heads (mushroom
type) (ventilator)
8. on-deck containers
9. bow thruster (pramani
propeler / pramani boni
vijak)
10. Ramp (rampa)
11. after thruster (krmeni
propeler/vijak)
12. fork lift truck (FLT viliar)
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Ro-Ro equipment
cargo lifts
car deck
internal ramps

side door
side ramp (bona
ukrcajna rampa)

Stern ramps
Axial ramp (axijalna, uzduna
rampa)
Quarter ramp (krmena, kvartirna
rampa)
Slewing ramp (okretna krmena
rampa)
Semi-slewing ramp

Bow ramps (pramana

rampa)
Bow bulkhead door
(pramana nepropusna vrata)
Hydraulic drives for
a. Bow door
b. Bow visor (natkapnik)

TRANSFER AND ACCESS GEAR

stern door (krmena vrata) - also acts as the ramp connecting the ship to the bridge ramp; very
large, cope with at least two lanes of traffic.
bow doors (pramana vrata) - must be as strong as the surrounding fore end; generally sidehinged, hinged to open upwards.
internal ramps (unutarnja rampa) used for distributing vehicles at various levels throughout
the cargo space.
hoistable platforms (podizna platforma, platforma na podizanje)
bulkhead door (nepropusna vrata)
side ramp (bona rampa)
slewing ramp (okretna rampa) enables a ship to load and discharge wheeled cargo directly
astern, over the porter quarter or over the starboard quarter.
Advantage:
makes the ship completely independent of port facilities,
can berth in remote ports, estuaries, rivers etc. where only one berthing position is possible.