Talk:Lightering

Other types of "lightering"
This term has been used aside from oil tankers, for example in colonial America many of the seaward ports developed from the lucrative transshipment between ocean-going vessels and smaller vessels capable of navigating shallow sounds and rivers to points inland. One example I am familiar with is Portsmouth Island, North Carolina, whose economy was almost entirely based on lightering. Can we put some mention of these alternative definitions in the article?

The Barge Industry uses this term for off loading of material from a barge to adjust the draft of that barge. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.64.175.226 (talk) 14:40, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Lightering still used in modern dry bulk shipping
Have edited the article to reflect the continued contemporary usage of this practise. Now sure what the source/reference was for making the claim that modern bulk carriers no longer lighter, but that claim is false.

I removed the 'stub' tag, as the article has plenty of links and information. The process it is describing is a relatively simple one, so no reason to overcomplicate matters.

Also, the following link was broken. Have inserted new link for a video describing the lightering process.


 * Skaugen Petro Trans document covering the basics of the lightering process

It is also still used in some more isolated places in the Pacific such as Norfolk Island, where no modern ship of any size can actually get close to the jetty even if empty. They anchor offshore & offload using onboard cranes to whaleboats (acting as barges) pulled by launches. (see Norfolk Island entry in Wikipedia) 144.139.103.173 (talk) 02:29, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

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