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  2. List of cargo types - Wikipedia

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    The term break bulk derives from the phrase breaking bulk—the extraction of a portion of the cargo of a ship or the beginning of the unloading process from the ship's holds. These goods may not be in shipping containers. Break bulk cargo is transported in bags, boxes, crates, drums, or barrels. Unit loads of items secured to a pallet or skid ...

  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. Shipping container - Wikipedia

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    A bulk box, bulk bin, skid box, or tote box is a pallet size box used for storage and shipping of bulk quantities ... is a container used to transport cargo on ...

  5. International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes Code - Wikipedia

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    The Code is designed to minimise the dangers to ship from carrying solid bulk cargoes. [2] It provides information on the dangers of cargo, as well as procedures for loading and unloading of cargoes. [2] Cargoes are categorized according to three cargo groups: A, B and C. [5] Group A refers to cargoes that may

  6. Container ship - Wikipedia

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    A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. Container ships are a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport and now carry most seagoing non-bulk cargo.

  7. 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.

  8. Breakbulk cargo - Wikipedia

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    The term break-bulk derives from the phrase breaking bulk, a term for unloading part of a ship's cargo, or commencing unloading the cargo. Ships carrying break-bulk cargo are often called general cargo ships. Break-bulk/general cargo consists of goods transported, stowed and handled piecemeal to some degree, typically bundled somehow in unit ...

  9. Hold (compartment) - Wikipedia

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    Six large cargo hatch covers on a capesize bulk carrier ship as she approaches the Egyptian-Japanese Friendship Bridge. A cargo hatch or deck hatch or hatchway is type of door used on ships and boats to cover the opening to the cargo hold or other lower part of the ship. To make the cargo hold waterproof, most cargo holds have cargo hatch.