Refrigeration is needed on board a cargo ship for storing of food provisions. Food provisions are stored in cold rooms. The cold rooms are demarcated for various temperatures. The rooms for storing meat, and fish are set at minus 25 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Seamen with jobs on board ship will be very familiar with signing-on and signing-off. Those are the terms used in shipping for the joining and leaving a ship. Dating from ancient times, seamen sign contracts to work on board ship. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The direction of the ship is controlled by the steering gear. As the ship moves through the water, the angle of the rudder at the stern determines the direction it will move. Modern ships are so big that moving the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The following essay describes a typical routine a Marine Engineer on watch usually does when he takes over the watch from his colleague: Because ships come in different designs, and people have different preferences, it is impossible to be correct […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A turbocharger is a piece of equipment installed in diesel engines to increase the density of air for combustion so that the engine can develop more power. By using exhaust gas to drive the compressor blower, the efficiency of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The machinery driving the ship is operated 24 hours (or 23 hours or 25 hours) a day. Why is there 23 or 25 hours, you might ask? This is to adjust to the different time zones as the ship travels […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In our previous publication, we touched on the subject of 2-stroke diesel engines. Today, we ask why we choose to use 2-strokes? As you might remember, for a 2-stroke engine, the piston has to move up, and then down to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Below are some photographs that show unloading of woodchip cargo. The whole bulk carrier ship carries a cargo consisting of woodchips. The importer was a paper manufacturer in Japan. The cargo was carried across the North Pacific Ocean from the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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