Title: Marine transport

Abstract: A marine transport system encompasses at least three ports. A plurality of modular hold units are releasably engageable with any one of a plurality of vessels and are so sized that, when loaded with cargo, each hold unit consumes a substantial fraction of the load-carrying capacity of any one of the vessels. A dock facility is located in each port for supporting a hold unit, independently of any of the vessels, so that cargo can be worked into and out of the hold unit through at least one side of the hold unit. The hold units are loaded into and removed from the docks by ballasting a vessel up or down into or out of load-transferring relation to a hold unit. Each vessel is arranged to operate normally only between two adjacent ports in the system. To move a hold unit between two non-adjacent ports, the hold unit is transferred by use of the corresponding dock facility, from vessel to vessel at each intermediate port so as to be passed from vessel to vessel.

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Inventors: Bylo, John J. (Los Angeles, CA, US)

Application Number: 439375
Filing Date: 1974-02-04
Publication_date: 1976-01-27
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Primary Class(es): 114/72
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US Patent Ref:

3139197

Jun, 1964

Bylo

214/12.

Other Refs: 1,022,374

Mar, 1966	UK

Primary Examiner: Halvosa, George E. A.
Assistant Examiner: Goldstein, Stuart M.
Attorney: Christie, Parker & Hale