Cargo ship

A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from 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 usually specially designed for the task, often being equipped with cranes and other mechanisms to load and unload, and come in all sizes. Today, they are almost always built by welded steel, and with some exceptions generally have a life expectancy of 25 to 30 years before being scrapped.

Types

Cargo ships/freighters can be divided into five groups, according to the type of cargo they carry. These groups are:

General cargo vessels

Tankers

Dry bulk carriers

Multi-purpose vessels

Reefer ships

General cargo vessels carry packaged items like chemicals, foods, furniture, machinery, motor- and military vehicles, footwear, garments, etc.

Tankers carry petroleum products or other liquid cargo.

Dry bulk carriers carry coal, grain, ore and other similar products in loose form.

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SS Enterprise: First steamship to India

DNA India 20 Jan 2019

This ship plied from Bombay to Suez and back ... Immense amounts of cargo could now be carried in massive ships; today’s largest ships are many times larger than the ones in which Columbus and Vasco Da Gama travelled! The steam engine enabled more progress to be made in ship construction in 200 years than wood and canvas sails had in 500!....

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As Haitians go without fuel, 312,000 barrels sit off the coast awaiting payment

The Miami Herald 20 Jan 2019

Haitians continued to search for gas Saturday as the Houston-based fuel reseller defended its decision to put five cargo ships filled with gasoline and diesel on “financial hold” in waters ... ....

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Up to 117 migrants missing in capsizing off Libya

Dawn 20 Jan 2019

ROME. Three survivors of a rubber dinghy that sank in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya say up to 117 other migrants were aboard at the time of the capsizing, a UN migration official said on Saturday ... The Italian Coast Guard says Libya asked a nearby cargo ship to search for survivors but they reported no one was found ... Google Play ... ....

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Survivors: Up to 117 missing from sunken boat off Libya

Index-Journal 20 Jan 2019

ROME (AP) — Three survivors of a rubber dinghy that sank in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya say up to 117 other migrants were aboard at the time, a U.N. migration official said Saturday ... The Italian Coast Guard says Libya asked a nearby cargo ship to search for survivors but the ship reported it found no one ... The U.N ... But U.N ... ——— ... ——— ... .......

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How the cargo ship industry is cleaning up its filthy act

Moneyweb 19 Jan 2019

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How a Cotswolds river became a name that defined history | Ian Jack

The Guardian 19 Jan 2019

Not a very smart ship, one of the workaday N-class (Nerbudda, Nowshera) that tramped slowly to Australia and back; my father had wanted a berth on one of the bigger M-class (Madura, Modasa) that took passengers as well as cargo....

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Mexican truckers fight highway robbery with armored semis

Taipei Times 19 Jan 2019

Then the robbers, firing AK-47s, hijacked its cargo and made their getaway ... Coronel runs a company that specializes in transporting high-value cargo such as electronics, appliances, pharmaceuticals and luxury clothes ... Mexican police received 11,425 reports of armed robberies of cargo vehicles in 2017 — or an average of more than 31 per day....

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Gujarat’s ports attract Rs 36,000 crore investment

The Times of India 19 Jan 2019

Chicago-based EagleRail Container Logistics, which has patented a technology to evacuate containers and other cargo directly from ships to the port area, also signed an MoU with GMB ... If dirty cargo like coal is handled through this system, it will help us create more ......

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Amazon pushing hard into ocean shipping, making it easier for Chinese goods to get to you

Herald Mail 19 Jan 2019

SAN FRANCISCO — Quietly and below the radar, Amazon has been ramping up its ocean shipping service, sending close to 4.7 million cartons of consumers goods from China to the United States over the past year, records show ... So just as Amazon leases rather than buys cargo jets, it now is also leasing space on ships....

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Survivors: Up to 117 migrants missing in capsizing off Libya

San Francisco Chronicle 19 Jan 2019

ROME (AP) — A rescue official says survivors have told rescuers that up to 117 migrants might have died when a rubber dinghy capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya ... It wasn't immediately clear if some migrants had already fallen off. The Italian Coast Guard says Libya asked a nearby cargo ship to search for survivors, but no one was found ... ....

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