How much do you know about landing craft tank? Do you know how landing craft tank is made? Do you know why landing craft tank is made? Do you know who is going to need a landing craft tank? Where does landing craft tank perform its best? What landing craft tank does for businesses? Are you one of them who need a landing craft tank to grow and perform better? How much do you know about landing craft tank?
Landing craft tank is a river vessel. Just like in any other of Ratson articles, landing craft tank is a shallow water draft specialist. It is made to have a low draft level that allows it to sail in shallow water like a river. Landing craft tank was designed to sail in a river or any shallow water areas and have a ramp door to help it to be able to berth in anyplace to reach an edge of the land available. At first, a landing craft tank was made to transport heavy equipment, heavy materials, or heavy duty. However, current development allows landing craft tank to as a multi-purpose sea transport vehicle in any shallow water draft area.
There are several rules in building a landing craft tank. As a key feature, of course, landing craft tank need to be built with a shallow water draft level design and a ramp door. Furthermore, there are several modifications that you could make, whether it is a passenger seat modification, double ramp door design to make a RORO like vessel, piping system modification so that the landing craft can carry a liquid cargo and many other. The most important part is safety and searches for the best modifications suited for the landing craft tank so that it could be your problem solver when it is finished and ready to sail. However, despite all of that, you need to ensure that the vessel is complying with the regulation of your country or the regulation of the country where the landing craft tank will be operated.
There are several rules that are applied in Indonesia that can be the same or can be different from your country's' regulation. First, related to the passenger modification. A landing craft with a passenger modification that is more than 20 seats need to be built with a double bottom structure. This structure helps to increase the safety of the passenger so that the vessel will not sink even though there is a leakage in the first layer of the bottom structure due to coral reefs collision or other crashing accident. Furthermore, a landing craft tank with more than 500 DWT of capacity will also need to be built with a double bottom structure. The heavier the vessel, the closer the bottom part with the bottom or the floor of the river which makes the vessel exposed to the higher risk compared to the vessel below 500 DWT. In addition, a landing craft tank with more than 5000 DWT will need to be built with a double bottom and double hull structure.
Another rule is that landing craft tank is not allowed to carry liquid cargo in Indonesia. This rule applies in consideration of safety requirement. Since most of the landing craft tank is used to transport a vehicle or heavy equipment and heavy duty, it is dangerous to carry it together with a fuel or other flammable liquid cargo. Even though they carried the solid and liquid cargo in the different time, it is still considered dangerous because the remains of the flammable liquid cargo will still be there even after the tank cleaning process. Therefore, Indonesia limits the application of the landing craft as a non-liquid sea transporter only, except the liquid cargo that is package and was load in the main deck like LNG tanks. However, several countries still allows a landing craft tank to transport a liquid cargo.
As what has been mentioned in many of our articles, a landing craft tank is a vessel that is mostly used in archipelago countries and developing countries or countries that do not have a good infrastructure to build a port for the vessel to berth. Landing craft tank helps those countries and businesses to save cost and can be used for any purpose to solve their problems as well as to connect their logistics link and double their productivity. In addition, a landing craft tank is easy to maintain, especially if it is equipped with grease to constantly maintain the ramp door lubricated.
Are you one of those businesses that live in an archipelago country? Are you one of those who needs a shallow water draft vessel? Are you one of those who care about the quality of your vessel? Are you one of those who really wants to invest in something worth? Are you one of those who wants to increase your growth? Are you one of those who need a landing craft tank?
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