RORO and LOLO Ships

RORO = Roll-On/Roll-Off
LOLO = Lift-On/Lift-Off

Upper Lakes Shipping from Jenish, p100
A typical short-sea shipping vessel with ro-ro, lo-lo capabilities — that’s short for roll on, roll off, load on, load off. Trucks can use the ramp at the stern to drive onto the cargo deck, while the two big cranes are used to lift cargo.  

Pure RORO Ships

Justin Andress shared four photos posted by Tadano.

Hoegh Trotter, one of the world's largest Pure Car and Truck Carrier (PCTC), arrived at the Port of Takamatsu to load our rough terrain cranes purchased by our North American customers!

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This photo makes you appreciate the fold-down ramp at the stern of today's RORO's.

Richard Gebhart posted
Mike Harlan shared
Michael Mierzwa I always wonder if any cars went overboard.
Dale Pohto From the pics I've seen (more than a few), McCarthy and Nicholson boats lashed their auto cargoes down quite securely. Those transported atop closed hatches of 'flat-back' haulers, on the other hand, seemed less... stable.
Fred Bultman It was known to happen but I doubt that it would happen on a boat like this with a flight deck.

Jesse Pontorno added three photos to the share with the comment: "They've been rolling them off the boat today in port Newark, NJ"

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Screenshot @ -0:35
[When one of these 70m units arrived in Australia, it was the largest in Australia.
It is nice to learn that some neat things are still manufactured in USA.]

Screenshot @ -3:05
NateGawd posted

(new window) "World's largest"  At 11:31 it leaves port sideways. So does it have Z-drives as well as bow thrusters?  When I watch these types of shows, I have to wonder if the producers arrange to have problems. For example, why didn't the port master know the height of the dump truck bed? And at 39:49,  did they deliberately move the ship too close to the lock wall to get that video? I find it hard to believe that they would normally let the ship get that crooked.

U. S. Coast Guard via CarAndDriver
[4,200 cars were on board. All crew members have been rescued, but according to a 9-10-2019 Chicago Tribune report, the Coast Guard had to make two different cuts in the hull to get the last four members out. It was built in 2017 and has a capacity of 6933 vehicles. The Tribune also reported that the Golden Ray is blocking the shipping lane for one of the busiest automotive ports in the US. Already, one outgoing and four incoming ships are blocked.]

Georgia Department of Nautrual Resources via CarAndDriver
[It rolled over even further after the Coast Guard arrived.]

Georgia Department of Nautrual Resources via CarAndDriver

Georgia Department of Nautrual Resources via CarAndDriver

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Pure LILO Ships

Paul R Murray posted
MUNTGRACHT - Upbound Port Huron, Michigan 5-14-2017

I have seen photos of ships with their own cranes in transit. But they are folded up in transit. I didn't realize that they can unfold into such long booms.

BigLift Shipping posted
Happy Ranger carrying 8 straddle carriers
Jens van Weele With fly-jib!
[I believe the fly-jib is the last section of this boom. Evidently not all ship cranes have such long booms.]

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Happy Dragon discharging crewboat

See Transport Wind Turbine Parts by Ship for several more examples of LILOs.

Multipurpose that includes RORO

Ben Stalvey commented on his posting
[Back when it made its cranes on the peninsula, it could easily ship its big ringer crawlers using a boat. (Probably on a boat it made because they started as a boat company and became a crane company.)]

Steve Robinson posted
A heap of Manitowoc Crawlers either going somewhere or coming back from somewhere.
[The comments indicate these are 4100s with counterweights.]
James Long John Blake it could have been the maitowoc docks. The WIL lines went most every where, but mostly houston, florida, south america and the virgin islands. My dad was the superintendent at the jacinto port yard in houston for wil.

Ben Stalvey posted
A little bit of blast from the past Manitowoc Wisconsin style. Back when Manitowoc Cranes would be shipped out by ocean going vessel. At the old plant along the Manitowoc River. Just a neat photo from my collection I wanted to share with everyone. I believe the oil/ fuel tanker acrossed the way by Wisconsin Fuel and Light was the SS Meteor.
James Long The Pilot was the biggest ship in the West Indies Shipping line. I worked on them for 3 summers in high school on the docks in Houston.
Vincent Umstot Full counterweight with no boom, that's touchy !

Ben Stalvey posted
Blast from the past some 4100 Ringers loading out of Manitowoc WI.

Screenshot @ 2:45

This 2012 ship is still the largest RORO.

9:22 video @ 8:54

Milan Krstic posted
An automobile elevator is used to load a car onto the hulking ship at the dock in Le Havre car is loaded onto the huge ship. The SS Normandie made 139 crossings before she was confiscated by the Americans at the advent of World War Two. After Pearl Harbour was attacked by the Japanese, she was renamed USS Lafayette and converted into a troop ship.
[There are a lot of comments about the war in France and the USS Lafayette conversions. Specifically, the ship caught on fire during the conversion and never made it out of the dock.]