What are the advantages of container ships?
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2025-04-25 15:34
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First, it can save loading and unloading labor and reduce transportation costs. General cargo ships use single pieces or small combined pieces for transportation, which is laborious and time-consuming.
First, it can save loading and unloading labor and reduce transportation costs. General cargo ships typically transport goods in single pieces or small combined units, which is laborious and time-consuming. Container ships use internationally standardized containers for transporting goods, breaking the traditional method of single-piece loading and unloading (e.g., bundles, packages), greatly reducing the labor intensity of stevedores, accelerating loading and unloading speeds, and cutting manual handling costs.
Second, using container ship transportation can reduce cargo damage and loss, ensuring transportation quality. This is because goods are loaded into containers at the production factory and then transported directly to the user without opening the containers during transit via road, rail, or water. This reduces cargo damage and loss during transportation and also saves on packaging costs.
Third, container ships have high loading and unloading efficiency. The cargo handling speed of a container ship is approximately three times that of a conventional cargo ship of the same tonnage, while large, high-speed container ships can achieve speeds almost 4-5 times that of conventional cargo ships of the same tonnage. This reduces the time vessels spend at the dock, accelerates vessel turnaround, and improves the utilization rate of ships, vehicles, and other means of transport.
Due to the aforementioned advantages of container shipping, container ships and container transportation have developed rapidly. At the same time, the advent of container ships has imposed new requirements on ports and terminals. Consequently, conveyor belts, rack movers, forklifts, and various forms of loading and unloading machines have emerged, as have specialized terminals for container ships. Container ship terminals are long and wide, capable of accommodating various types of container ships, and they also feature considerably spacious areas for stacking containers.
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Broadly, it refers to vessels capable of loading international standard containers; narrowly, it refers to full container ships where all holds and decks are exclusively used for loading containers.
Container ships were first developed in the US in 1957 by converting a cargo ship. Their loading and unloading efficiency is 10 times greater than that of conventional cargo ships, significantly reducing port time.
What are the advantages of container ships?
First, it can save loading and unloading labor and reduce transportation costs. General cargo ships use single pieces or small combined pieces for transportation, which is laborious and time-consuming.
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