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5 Loadicator tricks that can ease your life during cargo operation

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Have you ever imagined our life on board without loadicator?

While some intellectuals might find it of no difference to live without it, most of us can imagine how difficult it will be to calculate trims, drafts etc manually.

And most difficult part (rather an impossible one) will be to calculate Shear forces (SF) & bending moments (BM) manually.

So while most of us agree that loadicator has made our life onboard (Definitely the chief officer’s)  simple, are we using our loadictor to only calculate drafts, trims and stability?

There are many other things that we can use loadicator for. This post will highlight at least five of these things you can do with loadicator.

But before you do anything with loadicator, it is important to ensure that loadicator complies with the testing and carriage requirements.

Assuming your loadicator complies with all requirements, Let us take a recap of what we generally do with Loadicator.

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