Stowage is a sophisticated and special way of placing cargo on a ship or on any other ship that moves through the waters and that has a commercial activity of precisely moving goods.
It is extremely important both to take care of what is transported and the safety of a boat that is characterized by moving loads, that they travel as adequately as possible, and a key to ensuring that both conditions are met is that those loads are satisfactorily organized and placed in the available spaces. And this is precisely the main objective pursued by stowage.
Many of the loads transported by sea vessels have heavy weights and, for that matter, it is essential to know how to load them in such a way that there are no imbalances in the vessel that affect the safety and integrity of the vessel. As we can imagine, a poor stowage can cause a boat to suffer some damage, the most serious scenario being that it sinks for example.
In addition to the safety of the ship, its crew and the cargo itself, the stowage, seeks through its technique to make the most of the available space, the idea is to occupy the smallest space possible and in this lies the success of stowage, of knowing how to organize it so that the spaces are used to the maximum.
An issue that is also fundamental is the way in which cargo storage is organized, ideally, the cargo should be scheduled based on the trip to be made and the stops it will have. That is, the load that must be removed first must be closer to hand than another that, for example, will be unloaded at the end of the trip. With this action, delays and any other type of risk are avoided.
The container ships They are the ones that we normally appreciate in ports and they are the ones in charge of the transport of cargo in already standardized containers and are used to move all kinds of merchandise around the world, precisely because of the great efficiency with which they do so.
