[Public-list] Draft vs depth

Michael Grosh dickdurk at atlanticbb.net
Thu Aug 31 16:13:03 PDT 2006


>Michael J. Meinhold / SAIC

>Gross Registet Tonnage caclulations are just
>as Byzantine. These numbers are used to determine shipping fees and/or
>ship structural requirements and therefore affect the operating costs
>and capital cost of a ship.

Not to mention wheelhouse licenses are based on Gross Tonnage restrictions. 
Money is always the issue, isn't it?

Moulded draft is always used to describe barges-it's what the barge can be 
loaded to before a deck fitting is under water.

MichaelGrosh
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