Previous barge carriers were of similar design to the military ships with a large stern well deck.

The subsequent career of the Finnish-built barge carriers is unclear.

It is unknown if the specialized barge carriers, already close to the end of their economic life, were used for transporting cargo.

While barge carriers and lighters are a technologically interesting sea transport system, they are economic only under certain specific conditions of traffic and economy.

New problems which were as yet unknown to shipping companies arose with the advent of the LASH system and similar barge carriers.

Barge traffic remains halted on a 200-mile stretch of the middle-Mississippi River, costing barge carriers millions of dollars a day.

The ships were later followed by two smaller feeder-type barge carriers, Boris Polevoy and Pavel Antokolskiy, in the 1980s.

The originally barge carrier was converted into a powership at the Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul.

The carrier ships are known variously as LASH carriers, barge carriers, kangaroo ships or lighter transport ships.

Yulius Fuchik belonged to the distinct group of cargo ships known as barge carriers which offered, at the time, the highest theoretical loading and unloading rate of all cargo ships.

After the alleged plans for using the barge carriers to transport rolling stock from the United States to the Latin America fell through, the ships were laid up in Piraeus, Greece.

She was built by the Fincantieri Marghera Shipyard in Venice, Italy with yard number 305 as a barge carrier (LASH carrier) in September 1984.

Dry cargo ships - tramp freighters, bulk carriers, cargo liners, container vessels, barge carriers, Ro-Ro ships, refrigerated cargo ships, timber carriers, livestock & light vehicle carriers.

In the Kanawha River Valley near Charleston and along the southern Ohio River Valley near Huntington chemicals predominate, attracted by a readily available labor force and access by barge carriers.

SS Cape May (T-AKR-5063) is a steam turbine powered heavy-lift SEABEE barge carrier, one of two ships of her type in the Military Sealift Command's Ready Reserve Force.

Finnish state-owned shipbuilding company Valmet built two barge carriers largely based on the Sea Bee system for the Soviet Union in Vuosaari Shipyard in the late 1970s, Yulius Fuchik and Tibor Szamueli.

The wide range of vessel designs offered include, offshore and coastal patrol vessels, passenger vessels and ferries, icebreakers, double hull tankers, research vessels, fishing vessels, barge carriers offshore supply vessels, tugs, and floating plant barges, to name a few.

Built 1984 by the Fincantieri Marghera Shipyard in Venice, Italy and christened MV Nikolay Markin, she sailed as a barge carrier under various names and flags until she was converted 2014 into a powership at the Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey.

The carrier ships are known variously as LASH carriers, barge carriers, kangaroo ships or lighter transport ships.