Crane Barges Ship Loading Monitor
A crane vessel, crane ship, crane barge, or floating crane is a ship with a crane specialized in lifting heavy loads, typically exceeding 1,500 t (1,476 long tons; 1,653 short tons) for modern ships. The largest crane vessels are used for offshore construction.
The cranes are fitted to conventional monohulls and barges, but the largest crane vessels are often catamaran or semi-submersible types which provide enhanced stability and reduced platform motion. Many crane vessels are fitted with one or more rotating cranes. Some of the largest crane vessels use fixed sheerlegs instead; in these designs, the crane cannot rotate relative to the ship, and the vessel must be manoeuvred to place loads. Other vessels use large gantry cranes and straddle the load.
ShipLOADMaster™ – is a software package for calculation of load, stability, strength, floatability for tankers, gas carriers, dry bulk cargo ships, container carriers, sea-river vessels, general cargo vessels, floating drilling platforms, floating dry docks, floating cranes and other types of floating structures.
ShipLOADMaster™ allows to:
- Create loading and ballasting plan of the vessel in on-line mode and save it in the Database
- Develop a ballasting scheme for the vessel (floating platform), based on specified draft
- Calculate trim/heel, stability and strength of undamaged vessel in the current load status
- Create a virtual model of emergency situation and calculate trim and stability when specified compartments are flooded
- Calculate dock operations (arrangement of ships in the dock, ballasting and strength calculation)
- Arrange integration of separate modules of the floating object with calculation of trim-stability at each step of enlargement.
