Title:
STRUCTURE FOR WATER TRANSPORTATION
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPS58481
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
An integrated marine transport system for joint or separate commercial and military uses in which a plurality of cargo containers, each sized to define the entire cargo carrying space of a vessel, are each separably mated with cooperatively configured vessels provided for moving the containers from port to port. The system also includes dock facilities configured to mate with the cargo containers and to receive and to discharge the containers directly from and to the vessels. The system also includes in-port vessels for transferring the containers from the port-to-port vessels to the docks. Also described is a novel docking arrangement useful in conjunction with the vessels and the cargo containers to provide port and cargo handling facilities in undeveloped areas.
Inventors:
JIYON JIYOUZEFU BAIRO
Application Number:
JP4304682A
Publication Date:
January 05, 1983
Filing Date:
March 19, 1982
Export Citation:
Assignee:
BYLO JOHN JOSEPH
International Classes:
B63B35/40; B63B3/08; B63B25/00; (IPC1-7): B63B25/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Satoru Yoshimura