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...
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bulk carriers, both those in service and those which have ceased to operate. Bulk carriers are a type of cargo ship that transports unpackaged bulk cargo...
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Merchant ship (section Bulk carrier)
sizes. A bulk carrier is a ship used to transport bulk cargo items such as iron ore, bauxite, coal, cement, grain and similar cargo. Bulk carriers can be...
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Nordic Bulk Carriers is a Danish shipping firm that operates large bulk carriers in northern waters. The firm was founded in 2009 by Christian Bonfils...
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MV OS 35 was a bulk carrier registered in Tuvalu, a flag of convenience. It was attacked by pirates near Somalia in 2017, and was beached near Gibraltar...
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SS Hilda Marjanne (section Bulk carrier)
Hilda Marjanne was a Canadian straight deck bulk carrier operating on the Great Lakes. The ship was built at the Kaiser Shipyard in Swan Island, Oregon...
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ARGO photo, Bulk Carrier - Taken on Jul 6, 2012 - VesselFinder". www.vesselfinder.com. Retrieved 2023-12-14. "MAGIC CALLISTO, Bulk Carrier - Details and...
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List of longest ships (section Bulk carriers)
2008. USS Enterprise Nuclear-powered aircraft carrier[usurped]. military-today.com "Obit for a Carrier". Time. 7 January 2013. Retrieved 13 September...
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An ore-bulk-oil carrier, also known as combination carrier or OBO, is a ship designed to be capable of carrying wet or dry cargoes. The idea is to reduce...
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Trillium-class freighter (section Bulk carrier)
self-discharging lake freighters, the lake bulk carriers, and the Panamax self-discharging bulk carriers. Initially a nine-ship building program, six...
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The open hatch bulk carrier, often referred to as OHBC or conbulker, is designed to offer direct access to the hold through cargo hatches which extend...
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Pasha Bulker, later known as MV Drake and now MV Anthea, is a Panamax bulk carrier of 76,741 tonnes deadweight (DWT) operated by the Lauritzen Bulkers shipping...
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The River class is a type of bulk carrier designed for service on the Great Lakes. The MV Mark W. Barker, the first of the class is due to enter service...
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handling classifications include palletization and containerization. Bulk cargo Bulk carrier Caking Double dump valve Materials handling Rotary car dumper Self-discharger...
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carry specific forms of neo-bulk cargo, such as dedicated Roll-on/roll-off car-carrying ships, are called neo-bulk carriers. They are specially designed...
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MS Nordic Orion (category Bulk carriers)
MS Nordic Orion is a Danish bulk carrier registered in Panama City. A coal and ore carrier, Nordic Orion has a capacity of 75,603 tonnes deadweight (DWT)...
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in a storm, the ship is at risk of sinking, such that has happened on bulk carrier hatches. Some ships that sank due to cargo hatch failure: MV Derbyshire...
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Lake freighter (redirect from Bulk ore carrier)
Lake freighters, or lakers, are bulk carriers operating on the Great Lakes of North America. These vessels are traditionally called boats, although classified...
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Péng Sān) originally named Leda and later Avra is a 2001-built Chinese bulk carrier. The ship was built in 2001. It has been owned since 2016 by Ningbo Yipeng...
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Handysize is a naval architecture term for smaller bulk carriers or oil tanker with deadweight of up to 50,000 tonnes, although there is no official definition...
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Subcategories of capesize vessels include very large ore carriers (VLOC) and very large bulk carriers (VLBC) of above 200,000 DWT. These vessels are mainly...
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MS Berge Stahl (category Very large ore carriers)
MS Berge Stahl was a bulk carrier. Until the delivery of MS Vale Brasil in 2011 she was the longest and largest iron ore carrier in the world.[failed...
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Valemax (category Very large ore carriers)
measurements for limits on draft and beam. Valemax ships are the largest bulk carriers ever constructed, when measuring deadweight tonnage or length overall...
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LNG-fueled bulk carrier. It has the world's largest capacity at 50,000 dwt. According to SIGTTO data, in 2019 there were 154 LNG carriers on order, and...
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MV Abdullah (category Bulk carriers)
MV Abdullah, originally named MV Golden Hawk, is a Bangladeshi bulk carrier. Built in 2015, the 623-foot (190 m) vessel was acquired in late 2023 from...
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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-trailer...
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freighters active each day in the Red Sea included 105 bulk carriers and 58 tankers, down from 115 bulk carriers and 70 tankers the week before. In contrast, six...
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National Bulk Carriers was a shipping company which owned and operated oil tanker ships and bulk carriers. Some of them were among the largest in the world...
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transported on bulk carriers. The Code is mandatory under SOLAS Chapter VI. The Code does however not cover the carriage of grain in bulk which is instead...
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Cargo ship (redirect from Cargo carrier)
one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year, handling the bulk of international trade. Cargo ships are...
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