Is GLM suitable for Container Ships?


Question:

Is it possible to use the Load Editor and GLM for a container ship, to plan
and evaluate how to stow containers?



Answer:


Yes, the Load Editor is applicable to any type of vessel including
container ships.  On the other hand, it is not particularly specialized for
dealing with all of the information related to containers.

Basically, the ADD command is used to represent each location on the vessel
which may have a container.  Or, if you do not want to go into that much
detail, you can use one ADD command for each stack of containers, etc.

Special techniques are available for handling large numbers of ADDed weights.
This involves combining several weights and replacing them with one.  (See
the ADD command documentation "Combining Weight Items".)  In this manner
you can represent each hold with a single weight item.  Then when you want 
to deal with a particular hold, the ADD commands for it are brought back 
in from a file.  Using this technique, you can effectively deal with several
thousand ADDed weight items representing individual container locations.