Lift-on/lift-off

Cranes on a LoLo vessel
The Flora Delmas, a LoLo vessel

Lift-on/lift-off or LoLo[1] ships are cargo ships with on-board cranes to load and unload cargo. While the common abbreviation of lift-on/lift-off is LoLo, it is sometimes abbreviated as LOLO, LO/LO or Lo/Lo. Ships with cranes or other cargo handling equipment on-board are also termed geared vessels.

As container ships usually have no on-board cranes or other mechanism to load or unload their cargo, they are therefore dependent on dockside container cranes to load and unload. However lift-on/lift-off vessels can load and unload their own cargo unassisted. Lift-on/lift-off vessels can operate out of docks with no dockside cargo handling equipment.

References

  1. "Lift-on/Lift-off (LO/LO) Ships". GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved 13 April 2014.

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