Livestock carrier

(Also known as cattle truck ) animal transporters are ships that are used mainly for transporting live animals for slaughter, for example, cattle, sheep, rare for the transport of horses or camels. Also breeding or production animals are transported on a small scale with ships.

History

In the report on the Noah's Ark is found the oldest record of animal transport in the Bible. More reports on the transportation of horses of mounted warriors come from the ancient times and the Middle Ages. It is also known, took with the Spanish conquistador horses on their ships to South and Central America.

However, the first animal transport in the modern sense were sailing ships, which were used to slaughter cattle transport over shorter distances. With the advent of steamships, these were used on such routes. With the growth of the livestock industry in South America and Australia initially larger quantities were shipped to slaughter cattle over long distances. For this purpose, but always normal cargo ships were used. However, Carl von Linde invented around 1870, the modern refrigeration machine, which resulted in fast that animals slaughtered on a large scale in their countries of origin, processed and transported by refrigerated ship. The transport of animals for slaughter over shorter distances continue to take place on normal ships.

Already in the 1930s were built as such constructed Livestock, but only from the 1960s, the transport of live animals for slaughter grew so strong that people began increasingly to deal with the construction of pure animal transporters, initially existing ships converted to transport animals were. However, the construction of new animal transporters are created.

The Meyer Werft is one of the few German shipyards, which has engaged in multiple times with the conversion of ships into cattle trucks ( Livestock Carriers ). The naval architects of the yard and the supply industry developed to automatic feeding and manure removal.

Example vessels

The Zaher II pictured was built in 1961 as a coaster Nashira on the Dutch Boele 's shipyard in Bolnes and later converted to animal transport. After a surprisingly long period of service of more than 50 years the vehicle in 2012 is still considered Simental Livestock in driving. As another example, Linda Clausen may be taken. Built in 1972 as a passenger ship Cunard Ambassador, she was declared in 1974 as a result of an engine room fire, total loss and sold to the company C. Clausen D / SA / S in Copenhagen and converted to animal transport. After another engine room fire in 1984 it was finally scrapped. An especially large animals broke the Al Shuwaikh. It was built in Japan in 1966 as a tanker Erviken for a Norwegian shipping company, and in 1981 shortened at the Meyer Werft by almost 50 meters and converted to animal transport. She ran up to her scrapping in the fall of 2012 under the name Al Kuwait and could carry about 125,000 sheep.

Animal Welfare

Despite extensive legislation, it is on these ships again and again in injury and death of transported animals.