| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a marine vessel and a system and method of using the marine vessel to facilitate the introduction of bulk liquid commodities, such as LNG, into the established and extensive worldwide intermodal transportation system, which is based on containerized shipments.SOLUTION: A marine vessel 20 is a specialized vessel, of either ship or barge form, that is capable of holding a large number of ISO-sized intermodal LNG tanks 10 and is configured so as to have characteristics of both a tanker vessel (e.g., a gas carrier) and a container vessel at the same time. The intermodal LNG tanks connect to a piping system of the marine vessel and are thereby interconnected in such a manner that allows the interconnected intermodal LNG tanks to behave as if the intermodal LNG tanks constitute a typical LNG vessel bulk liquid tank to facilitate efficient loading at a typical marine LNG terminal.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4 |
