Commercial vessel
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A commercial vessel is defined by the United States Coast Guard as any vessel (i.e. boat or ship) engaged in commercial trade or that carries passengers for hire. This would exclude pleasure craft that do not carry passengers for hire or warships.
Commercial vessels come in a myriad of sizes and shapes from twenty-foot inflatable dive boats in Hawaii, to 5,000 passenger casino vessels on the Mississippi River, to 1,000 foot oil tankers and container ships at major ports, to a passenger carrying submarine in the U.S. Virgin Islands [1].
Some examples of commercial vessels:
- Barges
- Tugboats
- Semi-submersible Platforms
- Tankers
- Cargo vessels
- Research vessels
- Platform supply vessels
- Passenger vessels
