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Originally Posted by Alext
They do move a bit, but not to the extent that they hit each other as they should all be securely tied down.
I shipped a rather expensive car up to QLD in its own container last year. I saw to the securing of the vehicle to the tie points within the container myself and chocked the wheels securely. HOWEVER the bastard thing still managed to move -to my suprise and shock- a good 5 inches to one side, the side mirror narrowly missing the container wall by a few millimetres. The cause I put down to some dodgy tie downs.
I havent been on a voyage on one of these car-carrying ships though and it would be interesting to get input from anyone that has experience in this area...I'd love to know what goes on exactly on the ship.
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There have been a few articles (if i remember correctly) in wheels mags about RORO carriers in recent years, it looks alright. But a couple of years ago, I saw some E90 sedans being driven really hard off the ship by dock workers when I went to check out the arrival of my car. It's understandable considering that they may have to unload hundreds of cars within a given time period, but it looked like they were having too much fun...they certainly didn't look after them.