Lightering

The company used a process called lightering, where smaller vessels with roll-on/roll-off capabilities unload cargo from a large container ship and bring it ashore without using a traditional dock. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ship-to-ship oil transfers, called lightering, are common and often involve a third vessel servicing the operation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On rivers, the channels of which are interrupted by sand banks and rapids, the same operation may be carried out, thus avoiding the expense and delay necessitated by, perhaps, repeated "lightering," i.e., reduction of the cargo. ❋ Various (N/A)

The "lightering" process is used by the company in Alaska when its petroleum carriers can't call on the docks because they draft too much water, Miller said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He was a slave, and was employed, before the river was deepened so as to admit of the passage of large vessels up to the town, in lightering cargoes to the wharves. ❋ James R. Gilmore (N/A)

There was such a quantity collected that, instead of lightering it off in the boats, which is very rough and dirty usage for them, I constructed a sort of raft with four large spars arranged in the form of an oblong, placing an immense quantity of the smaller stuff in between. ❋ Frank T. Bullen (1886)

The government has now a dredge-boat at work at this point, which has been doing very good service of late, and it is hoped large vessels will soon be able to take in their full cargoes at Wilmington and proceed at once to sea without the necessity of lightering. ❋ R. E. Heide (1875)

He then went to Port Philip, and was employed in lightering cargo up the Yarra, and in ferrying between ❋ George Dunderdale (1862)

In the service of Mr. Sawyer, I got into a fair way of buying myself again; for I undertook the lightering of shingles or boards out of the Dismal Swamp, and hired hands to assist me. ❋ Grandy, Moses (1844)

In the service of Mr. Sawyer, I got into a fair way of buying myself again; for I undertook the lightering of the shingles or boards out of the Dismal Swamp, and hired hands to assist me. ❋ Unknown (1843)

Also during the quarter, the Overseas Everglades, a bareboat chartered-in Aframax, was transferred from the Aframax International pool to the lightering fleet;

As noted in last quarter's press release, the U.S. Flag newbuild program has been completed, with the delivery of the Overseas Tampa, the last of 12 Jones Act product carriers constructed for OSG by Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, Inc., and the OSG 351, the final lightering ATB; and