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An open livestock carrier with a cargo of sheep from Australia, docked in Oman. A livestock carrier is a seagoing vessel for the transportation of live animals. Typically it is large ship used in the live export of sheep, cattle and goats. Livestock carriers may be specially built new or converted from container ships.
Sheep in a B Double truck, Moree, NSW, Australia Twelve pigs being transported to an auction sale. Livestock transportation is the movement of livestock, by road, rail, ship, or air. Livestock are transported for many reasons, including slaughter , auction , breeding , livestock shows, rodeos , fairs , and grazing .
Animal transporters are used to transport livestock or non-livestock animals over long distances. They could be specially-modified vehicles, trailers, ships or aircraft containers. [1] [2] While some animal transporters like horse trailers only carry a few animals, modern ships engaged in live export can carry tens of thousands.
Estes semi-trailer truck in 2016. The company was founded near Chase City, Virginia, by cotton farmer Webb Wallace ("W.W.") Estes (1897–1971). Estes started providing livestock moving services for local farmers in 1931 [4] with a used Chevrolet truck. By 1932 the trucking business was also hauling general freight and provided enough revenue ...
The 190-meter long (623 foot) Al Kuwait is a Kuwaiti-flagged livestock vessel, according to the Marine Traffic website. It docked in Cape Town to load feed for the cattle, the SPCA said.
To meet this need, Con-way, Inc. acquired Contract Freighters, Inc. (CFI), a privately held North American truckload carrier based in Joplin, Missouri, for US$750 million. CFI was an industry leader at the time of acquisition, operating over 2,600 tractors and more than 7,000 trailers, with more than 3,000 employees including approximately ...
SS Cufic was a livestock carrier, built by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line, measuring 4,639 gross registered tons, and completed on 1 December 1888. [3] Her sister ship was the SS Runic. She ran the Liverpool to New York route.
Cymric had originally been intended to be an enlarged version of SS Georgic, [1] being a combination of a passenger liner and livestock carrier, with accommodation for only First Class passengers. During the stages of her design layout, it became clearer to the designers at Harland and Wolff that combining passengers and livestock had become ...