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What is a Deck Barge – What is the Purpose of Deck Barge

admin — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:56:35 +0000

What is a Deck Barge?

DECK BARGES

As we mentioned before on our blog post Types of Barges (which contains very useful information) it was explained superficially. Now you can find detailed information about Deck Barges.

Also called or known as a flat deck barge. Deck barges can vary in size and overall design depending on what they are used for, and some include rake decks. Those with rake decks have curved bows that allow for less resistance when being pushed, which can make transporting and shipping items on the deck easier. Some of the items commonly transported/stored on deck barges include crane, excavators, pipe, piling, rock, fabricated structures, and certain kinds of liquid cargo. Occasionally, these types of barges are utilized as work platforms, allowing offshore projects to conveniently extend beyond land. Deck barges are common in marine construction, dredging, bridge construction, bulkhead construction, and in the offshore gas and oil industry. A deck barge’s deck can accommodate large objects such as sections of bridges in addition to bulk materials, machinery, and equipment.

Made of steel and engineered to withstand the elements, it is common to find deck barges still in use over the course of several decades. Deck barges are usually between 20 and 120 meters in length and between 15 and 30 meters wide. They can support several hundred tons of weight. The various types of deck barges include inland deck barges, rock/gravel deck barges, deck barges with combing walls, self-propelled deck barges, deck barges with bin walls, classed deck barges that have to meet certain specifications. Most deck barges are not self-propelled, and those that are self-propelled are often higher in price.

Deck barges can cope with an enormous amount of damage and unbelievably still survive.

Depending on the size, age, and overall specs of a deck barge, this type of equipment is usually valued between $100,000 and $4,000,000. Before mentioned, deck barges commonly last several decades or more. It is common to find deck barges from the 1950s still in use due to their durability. Because of this, buying used deck barges is a great alternative for many companies on a budget. For temporary use, some companies decide to charter rather than outright purchase deck barges.

You can find Sema-1 (belongs to our company), deck barge for sale, designed and constructed specially and carefully.

Deck Barge For Sale, you can check our deck barge vessel which has very good and special design so that available for most compelling projects.

Different Types of Barges

admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 22:08:42 +0000

Different Types of Barges

INLAND BARGES

Inland barges comprise the majority of barges operating on the inland waters. These types of barges are designed to operate on canals, rivers, bays, and inland lakes. Inland barges’ aim is providing the most economical mode of transportation for oversized, large volume, or high-density cargos.

Different sizes of barges and configurations assist in the transportation of specific materials and project execution. Barges are an inbuilt part of the development of the various industries and communities that depend on the waterways.

DECK BARGES

This type of barge is designed to carry cargo on its deck and differ in size and structural design, depending on its aimed use. Deck cargos include such as piling, pipe, fabricated structures, heavy equipment, rock, palletized material, or even horses, cattle, and rocket boosters. In some cases, certain liquid cargos may be carried in the interior watertight sections. Deck barges are also used as work platforms for machinery and workes, in this way serving as an extension of the land. Some of the deck barges may have raised rake decks. Here is the very good DECK BARGE sample named SEMA-1 which belongs to our company.

SPUD AND CRANE BARGES

Spud barges are specially built to support a working crane or an excavator. Spud barges typically have a boxed stern to ensure maximum flotation while operating a crane. The extra reinforced keel is generally provided under the crane working area by use of additional bulkheads, internal trusses, or deck frames. Wooden crane mats help distribution the concentrated load and providing traction for the crane. Spud barges can also be used for general cargo transportation or as a work platform. The operation of the spuds is operated by a crane placed aboard the barge or by a spud-winch that may be installed. Another option is embarking a crawler crane on to Deck Barge like the flattop deck barge SEMA-1, mooring is completed by 4 point mooring system to provide the stable working condition.

HOPPER BARGES

Hopper barges usually have double-hull construction, wherein the sides and bottom of the cargo hold are separated from the hull by void spaces. These types of barges are designed for efficient transport of commodities in bulk, such as coal, grain, ore, sugar, steel, timber products, aggregates, and numerous other cargos.

Hopper barges have a single raked, double-raked, or boxed hull configuration. The hoppers can be covered or open. Covers provide protection of cargos from the external factors. Covers may be installed as roll-top (telescoping), or lift-off (stacking) type.

Hopper Barges have also subtypes like split hopper barge and bottom door hopper barge with gear or gearless.

USE OF BARGES

• The use of barges has witnessed a severe decline but not complete extinction. Barges can successfully transport items in bulk with lower transportation costs than other modes of transportation. Another main reason for their usage is that these are available in different sizes (like with smaller capacities of 1400 tons to even larger of 2700 tons) and can be employed as per the need for goods to be transported.

• For traveling in calm water, either upstream or downstream, self-propelled barges can be used which can propel on their own and facilitates successful transportation of any sort of cargo (either dry or liquid).

• In most of the cases, the design of a barge is carried out for a specific water body and that barge has to serve in only that water body throughout its life. In all cases, if that barge is used to serve in any other water body with a high flow rate or to be operated for an upstream route, then this barge can voyage only with tugged or assisted by a tug boat.

• Royal Barges can be used for the celebration of certain occasions by the royal family. These barges are still owned by monarchs of the United Kingdom and provide a luxurious destination celebration of an event.

• Barges are mostly used for the transportation of coal and grain on coastal waters. These barges help to save a huge sum in transportation against other transportation methods.

• The capacity of the goods to be transported can be enlarged considerably when it’s transported by barges because in a single voyage one or more barges could be towed by the tug boat and which makes transportation more economically.

Deck Barge Building

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 23:39:01 +0000

Deck Barge Building

Length	: 61,50 m
Breadth	: 16,00 m
Depth	: 4,00 m
Draught	: 2,50 m
Type	: Deck Barge with Crane Tracks
Class	: RINA
Deck Strength	: 15tons/m2 overall, 30tons/m2 at crane path
Loading Capacity	: 2000 tons
Light Ship	: 550 tons
Deck Equipment	Anchor Windlass 4 Mooring Winches Generator Bollards : Panama Hawses

We are ready to provide you the most suitable design and equipment with 25 years of experience in marine construction. Please feel free to Contact Us.

Izmit Osmangazi Bridge Project

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 23:00:59 +0000

Izmit Osmangazi Bridge Project

NOMAYG JV formed by five Turkish companies (Nurol, Özaltın, Makyol, Yüksel and Gocay), and one Italian construction company Astaldi was awarded by the construction project.

Osmangazi Bridge has a total length of 2907m and 1.550 m long main span, the bridge is the 4th longest suspension bridge on the world. The height of the Osmangazi Bridge is about 234 meters. The bridge is located between Dilovasi and Hersek.

Sema-1 was chartered by IHI at the Izmit Bay Bridge Project which is called Osmangazi Koprusu, one of the biggest suspension bridges in the World. Deck Cargo Barge Sema-1 completed all tasks smoothly.

Please feel free to contact us to get a quotation for the deck cargo barge charter should you require at your projects.

Quick Details of the Sema-1

Loading Capacity	: 2000 tons
Deck Strength	: 40 tons/2 at crane paths, 10tons/m2 overall
Dimensions	: 61m Length, 16m Width, 4m Depth
Build Year	: 2013

Canakkale 1915 Bridge

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:22:09 +0000

Canakkale 1915 Bridge

Canakkale 1915 Bridge is the longest mid-span suspension bridge in the world. The bridge is located between Gallipoli in Europe and Lapseki in Asia.

The planned total length of the bridge is 3563 meters and with the viaducts, length reaches 4608 meters. Span distance of the 1915 Canakkale Bridge is 2023 meters. The total height of the towers is 318meters. The Bridge is the center-piece segment of the 324-km-long Kınalı-Tekirdağ-Çanakkale-Savaştepe Motorway Project.

Some symbolic figures are related to the bridge. The name “1915” and therefore the groundbreaking date “March 18” are associated with the Turkish Naval Victory on March 18, 1915, during the naval operations within the Gallipoli Campaign. The length of the bridge’s main span with “2,023” meters refers to the centennial of the Turkish Republic in 2023.

Flattop Deck Cargo Barge Sema-1 was hired by Unitek Insaat, which is a subcontractor of bridge contractor consortium DLSY (Daelim – Limak – SK E&C – Yapi Merkezi), for piling works of towers foundations. 600 tons capacity crawler crane was embarked on Deck Barge Sema-1 and the project was completed successfully.

We successfully completed the charter job at Canakkale 1915 Bridge project with our deck barge equipment Sema-1 as the main piling barge for the foundation of bridge towers. 600 tons capacity crawler crane was embarked on Sema-1.

Hamitabat Project – Transportation of Transformers

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 23:07:02 +0000

Hamitabat Project – Transportation of Transformers

1200 MW capacity, supplies electric for 1.271.749 people, Hamitabat Natural Gas Combined Cycle Power Plant is located at the Luleburgaz district of the Kırklareli City. The completion date of this heavy move project is the end of June 2016. We as Sema Marine completed our services in April 2016.

Our, Flat Top Deck Barge, equipment SEMA-1 was chartered by Hareket Proje Tasimaciligi, which is the main contractor for heavy move project of the segments of the power plant, for transportation of Hamitabat power plant transformers between Tuzla and Marmara Ereglisi. All stability, ballast operations, loading, and unloading calculations and operations completed successfully for 2 unit transformers, 450tons each. Deck Barge SEMA-1 is capable of performing similar projects

Please feel free to contact us to get a quotation for such heavy cargo transportation by deck cargo barge.

Flat top Barge + Deck Barge Sema-1

admin — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 11:21:44 +0000

Flat top Barge + Deck Barge Sema-1

Name	: Sema-1
Type	: Flat top Barge – Deck Barge
Flag	: Turkish
Class	: Turkish Llyod
Build Year	: 2013
Length	: 61,50 m
Breadth	: 16,00 m
Depth	: 4,00 m
Draught	: 2,75 m
Deck strength	: 40 tons/m2 at crane paths , 10 tons/m2 overall
Loading capacity	: 2000 tons

Sema-1 is a good design Deck Barge to serve at most projects such as heavy equipment embarking/disembarking, crawler crane placement for marine construction projects, concrete pump/mixer embarking for casting at the site, berthing pontoon. It has reinforced crane paths are also can be used for heavy loads up to 2000 tons. She has valid class certificates and holding unrestricted navigation status. Deck strength is 40 tons/m2 at crane paths and 10tons/m2 at the remaining deck area. 4 pcs 15tons maneuvering winches and anchor windlass placed on the deck. Please check our recent charter jobs to see capabilities of the our equipment.

Available for sale or charter.