What does RO-RO stand for?

The ferry will be a roll-on/roll-off vessel, with approximate capacity for 60 vehicles and 200 passengers and will also be environmentally friendly, with low emission machinery.

Removing the bans on the way of entering Iranian road fleet to Russia, implementation of the scheduled plan on roll-on/roll-off ships, canceling visa issuance for the two countries drivers, and expansion of training-research cooperation are among the other topics of the meeting.

Competitors were then instructed to create staging area templates and staging plans for two separate port areas in Antwerp, Belgium and Rotterdam, The Netherlands and create a stow plan for one large medium speed (LMSR) roll-on/roll-off (RORO) vessel.

The two vessels are the Cape Victory and the Cape Vincent, both Roll-On/Roll-Off, or RO/RO, vessels designed to carry wheeled and tracked vehicles.

Training requires having a primary vessel anchored mid-stream in open ocean water, downloading equipment from another vessel to a floating platform called a Roll-On/Roll-Off Discharge Facility, then uploading it again on a secondary vessel such as a Landing Craft Utility or Landing Craft Mechanized boat for movement to a floating pier that extends from the beach into open water.

The ships will be capable of operating in shallow-draft ports and waterways, interfacing with roll-on/roll-off discharge facilities, and on/off-loading a combat-loaded M1A2 Abrams main battle tank.

Last but not least is the newest addition to the MTMCTEA family of publications, the "Large, Medium-Speed, Roll-on/Roll-off Ships Users' Manual," MTMCTEA Pamphlet 700-6, dated September 2002.

Houston, Texas, is being awarded a $27,003,846 fixed-price contract for the operation and maintenance of the eight government-owned Watson-class large, medium-speed, roll-on/roll-off (LMSR) ships.