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2. Bulk carrier - Wikipedia

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   A bulk carrier or bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo —such as grain, coal, ore, steel coils, and cement—in its cargo holds. Since the first specialized bulk carrier was built in 1852, economic forces have led to increased size and sophistication of these ships. Today's bulk carriers are specially ...

3. Bulk cargo - Wikipedia

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   Bulk cargo refers to material in either liquid or granular, particulate (as a mass of relatively small solids) form, such as petroleum / crude oil, grain, coal, or gravel. This cargo is usually dropped or poured, with a spout or shovel bucket, into a bulk carrier ship's hold, railroad car / railway wagon, or tanker truck / trailer / semi ...

4. List of cargo types - Wikipedia

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   Bulk cargo is classified as liquid or dry. A tanker (or tank ship or tankship) is a ship designed to transport or store liquids or gases in bulk. Major types of tankship include the oil tanker, the chemical tanker, and gas carrier. Tankers also carry commodities such as vegetable oils, molasses and wine.

5. A Growing Divide: Wall Street vs. Dry Bulk Shippers - AOL

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   While many Wall Street analysts have been forecasting a coming rebound in the dry bulk shipping industry, and the Capital Link Dry Bulk Index is up approximately 33% year to date, the shipping ...

6. Breakbulk cargo - Wikipedia

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   Break-bulk/general cargo consists of goods transported, stowed and handled piecemeal to some degree, typically bundled somehow in unit loads for hoisting, either with cargo nets, slings, or crates, or stacked on trays, pallets or skids. [4] Furthermore, batches of break-bulk goods are frequently packaged in smaller containers: bags, boxes ...

7. Cargo ship - Wikipedia

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   They are a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport and now carry most seagoing non-bulk cargo. Container ship capacity is measured in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). Tankers carry petroleum products or other liquid cargo. Dry bulk carriers carry coal, grain, ore and other similar products in loose form.