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In shipping, break-bulk, breakbulk, [2] or break bulk cargo, also called general cargo, is goods that are stowed on board ships in individually counted units. Traditionally, the large numbers of items are recorded on distinct bills of lading that list them by different commodities . [ 3 ]
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 ...
C4-S-A3 14,863 DWT as break bulk cargo ship. Built by Kaiser Shipyards in Vancouver, Washington, in 1946. SS Mount Davis - Sold private in 1951, scrapped in 1971. SS Mount Greylock - Sold private in 1951, scrapped in 1971. SS Mount Mansfield - Sold private in 1951, scrapped in 1980. SS Mount Rogers - Sold private in 1951, scrapped in 1971.
Prior to the SS Ideal-X, all non-bulk cargo was hand-loaded and hand-unloaded by longshoreman at the docks. The first bulker, the SS John Bowes, was launched in 1852, and the first oil tanker, the ...
Break bulk or breaking bulk may refer to: Breakbulk cargo , a shipping term for any loose material that must be loaded individually, and not in Intermodal containers nor in bulk as with oil or grain Breaking bulk (law) , a legal term for taking anything out of a package or parcel or in any way destroying its entirety
Break bulk is a shrinking market. Pure-play break bulk operators are being squeezed as governments and seaport operators around the world boost local infrastructure while ro-ro, box ship and dry ...
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 ...
Compared to larger bulk carriers, handysizes carry a wider variety of cargo types. These include steel products, grain, metal ores, phosphate, cement, logs, woodchips and other types of so-called 'break bulk cargo'. They are numerically the most common size of bulk carrier, with nearly 2000 units in service totalling about 43 million tons.