| 摘要 |
A method of loading floatable containers onto, and discharging floatable containers from, a seaworthy vessel to facilitate the transport of cargo. The vessel includes twin hulls which lie beneath the water's surface, a device for controlling the draft and the horizontal position of the vessel, a plurality of submersible platforms each of which lies on a longitudinally and transversely subdivided controllable air cell, device for controlling the draft and the horizontal position of the submersible platforms, and transverse trusses having engagement devices to support said platforms. The levels and the horizontal position of both the hulls and the aforementioned platforms are manipulated by air provided by on-board turbo air compressors running open-loop within their speed-delivery characteristics and/or by air vented from the hulls and the aforementioned platforms, regulated by valves controlled by a central processor with software for the continuous automatic correcting of calculated valve setting programs and for using the valve setting programs corrected during the preceding load cycle for the subsequent discharge cycle, to permit for efficient changes between loading draft and voyage draft.
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