Barges. Hear the name may still be unfamiliar to our ears.
For some communities there may be who do not know or even see instantly what's barges.
Barges or commonly also known as Pontoon boat with a hull is a type of flat or large squares that float.
It is used for transporting goods or simply as a floating pier. In the years 1960-1980-an this type of ship used in the trans-Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Papua.
Because at that time there hasn't been a great bridge. However, it is now largely been replaced by a bridge.
This boat is made for transportation rivers and canals with carry in large quantities such as coal, wood, sand, and others.
Barges don't have machine (self-propelled) so he had to be towed by tugboats. Yes, because, in contrast to the barges boats in General.
He is only the construction without the ship's systems in General.
Tugboat is a ship that can be used to perform the movement in time pull or push other vessels in the harbour.
Well, so from that tugboats are often used to pull barges.
In Indonesia alone, produced a lot of barges in the area of Batam is one which venue shipping production in Indonesia.
Then what other functions of barges? Functioning barges transporting results of mine. Usually the result of mine materials such as coal, iron, nickel, sand, and others.
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