livestock carrier

Livestock carriers carry more crew members than conventional cargo ships of a similar size.

Voyages on livestock carriers generally last from three days to three to four weeks.

A livestock carrier, as the name suggests, is a large ship used in the live export of sheep, cattle and goats.

The space allocated to animals on livestock carriers is officially regulated according to their size and weight ranges.

There were at least two other large livestock carriers which specialised in combined cargoes of cattle and sheep.

The most important vessels to Ireland were the ten colliers and to Britain the livestock carriers.

Open livestock carriers - in which all, or most, of the animal pens are installed on open decks.

The only moderately large vessel, a 6,000 tonner built originally as a livestock carrier, had been a hulk for a decade.

She had originally been designed as a combination passenger liner and livestock carrier, with accommodations for only First Class passengers.

During the summer of 2006 she was employed on short-term charter as a livestock carrier between Dover and Calais.

Closed livestock carriers - in which more or less all of the animals pens are located within the holds and internal decks of the ship.

Though designed as a livestock carrier, Tauric carried a small amount of cabin-(second-) and steerage-(third-) class passengers.

Livestock carriers are those ships, which specialise exclusively in the transportation of large numbers of live animals together with their requirements for the voyage.

During the latter half of the twentieth century, millions of sheep and many thousands of cattle were transported on livestock carriers.

The airline's second incarnation was as a specialist livestock carrier transporting cattle between Norwich and Germany.

On most open livestock carriers, there is also some type of supplementary mechanical ventilation installed in critical zones, along with appropriate back-up equipment for emergencies.

Livestock carriers are required to carry sufficient feedstuffs for the maximum length of the voyage plus adequate reserves for emergencies.

However, ventilation is almost entirely dependent on mechanical systems on 'closed' livestock carriers and construction rules require specific ventilation standards for the internal spaces.

Westralia was sold to the Asian and Pacific Shipping Co Ltd in 1959, serving as a livestock carrier.

SS Cufic was a livestock carrier, built by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line in 1888.

She was purchased for use as a livestock carrier but instead, as Najla, she was again used for accommodation, this time in the Hebrides, Scotland.

There have also been a number of occasions when political or commercial disagreements have created delays in livestock carrier operations which have resulted in needless suffering to animals on board.

Developments in water production technology (salt water evaporators or reverse-osmosis systems) eventually led to livestock carriers with equipment capable of producing up to 600 tonnes of fresh water per day.

Shipped on livestock carriers in what has been called crowded, unsafe conditions by critics, live sheep are desired by Middle Eastern nations to meet the requirements of ritual halal slaughter.

Flying Tigers also made livestock carriers for airplanes, some comparable in external size and shape to the standard AMJ container used in the FedEx flight operations.