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A mini-bulker taking on cargo in Brest.

Bulk cargo is commodity cargo that is transported unpackaged in large quantities. These cargos are usually dropped or poured, with a spout or shovel bucket, as a liquid or solid, into a bulk carrier’s hold, railroad car, or tanker truck/trailer/semi-trailer body. Bulk cargos are classified as liquid or dry.

The largest bulk carrier cargo ship in the world is the iron ore carrier Berge Stahl, weighing a massive 364,768 metric tons of deadweight (DWT).

The busiest bulk cargo port in the world is the New Orleans-area based Port of South Louisiana.

Contents

• 1 Dry bulk cargos
• 2 Liquid bulk cargos
• 3 Some bulk shipping companies
• 4 Large ports specializing in bulk cargo
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 External links

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Dry bulk cargos

This heap of iron ore pellets will be used in steel production.

• coal
• grain (wheat, maize, rice, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, soybeans, etc.)
• iron ore (ferrous & non-ferrous ores, ferroalloys, pig iron, scrap metal, etc.)
• bauxite
• wood chips
• cement
• chemicals (fertilizer, plastic granules & pellets, resin powder, synthetic fiber, etc.)
• dry edibles (for animals or humans: alfalfa pellets, citrus pellets, livestock feed, flour, peanuts, raw or refined sugar, seeds, starches, etc.)
• bulk mine (sand & gravel, copper, iron, (ores in pellet form) , salt, etc.)

Liquid bulk cargos

• petroleum
• liquefied natural gas (LNG)
• gasoline
• chemicals
• liquid edibles (vegetable oil, cooking oil, fruit juices, etc.)

Some bulk shipping companies

DME 49328, a covered hopper owned and operated by the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad.

• Trans Ocean Distribution Homepage
• Aasen Shipping & Aasen Chartering (Norway) Homepage
• ALL-Transport A/S (Norway) Homepage
• American Steamship Company (United States) Homepage
• Canada Steamship Lines (Canada)
• Commercial Trading & Discount (Greece)
• Czech Ocean Shipping (Czech Republic)
• Daeyang Shipping (China – Greece – Japan)
• c(Canada)
• Gearbulk Holding Limited (Norway – Japan)
• M/S Fjordbulk (Norway)
• NOL Services (Singapore)
• OAM Coal Trade and Bulk Shipping (Germany)
• Österströms Rederi AB (Sweden)
• SMC Marine Services (Singapore)
• Samsun Logix (South Korea)
• The Skaarup Group (United States) Homepage
• Zhejiang Ocean Shipping Company (China)
• Losinjska Plovidba brodarstvo (Croatia)

Large ports specializing in bulk cargo

• Port of South Louisiana
• Port of Rotterdam

See also

• World’s busiest port
• Flexible intermediate bulk container (bigbag)

References

• George, William (2005). Stability and Trim for the Ship’s Officer. Centreville, MD: Cornell Maritime Press. ISBN 978-0-87033-564-8. 
• Hayler, William B.; Keever, John M. (2003). American Merchant Seaman’s Manual. Cornell Maritime Pr. ISBN 0-87033-549-9. 
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2006). Review of Maritime Transport, 2006. New York and Geneva: United Nations. 
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2007). Review of Maritime Transport, 2007. New York and Geneva: United Nations. 

External links

• Dry Cargo international
• The Powder and Bulk Channel

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