MHoekert Hi Marc, great pictures. I enjoy seeing things like that. Cheers,
I realize now this is probably a translation thing. RoRos are specifically bulk carriers here. Long haul deep sea vessels. They typically have one large ramp and are basically just packed like sardines with cars or in my case full lifts of finished lumber stacked tight not on trucks. They have no place for drivers or passengers and are at sea for weeks at a time. Just transporting cargo that’s it.
We would refer to those that you are sharing as ferries. We have a number of them here in British Columbia on our coast. They only operate in Canadian waters though. They’re big but not quite the size of the ones meant to sail in the North Sea.
I’ll put a picture of the ships we call a RoRo here in the maritime industry. The ones that I worked on only had one huge curved ramp at the bow that folded in half then unfolded so it could be loaded at any docking location.
