Coastal trading vessel
Shallow-hulled ships used for trade between locations on the same island or continent / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Coastal trading vessels, also known as coasters or skoots,[1] are shallow-hulled[citation needed] merchant ships used for transporting cargo along a coastline. Their shallow hulls mean that they can get through reefs where deeper-hulled seagoing ships usually cannot (26-28 feet), but as a result they are not optimized for the large waves found on the open ocean. Coasters can load and unload cargo in shallow ports. For European inland waterways, they are limited to a 33,49 m beam.[clarification needed]