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Landing Craft Vessel as Transport Vehicle

 September 03, 2018

Landing craft vessel is a sea transport vessel. A landing craft was first made to transport heavy equipment, heavy-duty vehicle, and equipment for war purpose. It was made and designed specifically so that it could berth anywhere and deliver the tank and other heavy-duty vehicles easily. However, by the time goes by and the world war is over, landing craft vessel purpose is shifted to transport heavy equipment, heavy-duty vehicle, and others for business purposes.

A landing craft vessel is mostly used to deliver goods to a place which is hard to reach by land. Else, a landing craft vessel also often be used to transport goods in a large amount in one-time shipping to save cost. Having this purpose, landing craft vessel is a good option to reach the location that has low infrastructure and having a shallow water level. Therefore, most of the countries that use a landing craft vessel are archipelago countries or low infrastructured countries.

Most developing country will have a landing craft vessel to support their economy and running their logistics cycle. By having a landing craft as an asset, especially for countries that allow landing craft to carry liquid cargo inside the tank, it will help those countries to save a lot of costs. This is happening because they can carry both liquid and solid cargo with just having a single landing craft. Landing craft can help them to transport liquid cargo inside the tank, and load some container or other solid cargo in the main deck. Furthermore, they won't need to have a good harbor to be able to berth. Therefore, a landing craft tank will help them to improve their economy.

A landing craft vessel will also help businesses to transfer their raw materials and moving their equipment to do a project. There are many businesses that use landing craft to support their businesses. Starting with mining companies, construction companies, oil & gas companies, shipping companies, and many others. A landing craft vessel is very useful to support their projects especially for a project in rural areas and hard to access location. A landing craft will support them to transport all the materials as well as all the equipment needed to do their projects at those locations. Furthermore, they can save more cost because the cost of shipping the materials and equipment will be higher if they send it by land. In addition, they can ship a large number of materials and equipment which makes them save cost from fuel consumption.

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