Ships are generally categorized based on their use, their type of cargo, and the method by which the cargo is loaded. In terms of usage, ships can be classified as commercial vessels, military vessels, fishing vessels, or specialized vessels. Commercial vessels can be classified as cargo ships, which carry cargo, or as passenger ships, whose primary function is to carry passengers.
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1. Type of Ships
Ships are generally categorized based on their use, their type of cargo, and the method
by which the cargo is loaded. In terms of usage, ships can be classified as commercial
vessels, military vessels, fishing vessels, or specialized vessels. Commercial vessels
can be classified as cargo ships, which carry cargo, or as passenger ships, whose
primary function is to carry passengers. When classifying based on cargo type, if the
cargo is in a liquid state then the ship is called a tanker, if it is in a solid state it is called
a cargo ship, and when it is carrying a powder it is called a carrier. However, nowadays
these terms are often used in an indiscriminate manner.
Within the industry, there are ten main shipping classifications:
General Cargo Ship: Until ships started to be built to carry specific and specialized
cargoes, all ships were simply general cargo ship, i.e. built to carry all types of
cargoes e.g. drums of asphalt or caustic soda, cases of machinery, boxes or cartons
containing ebearings or electronic goods, Radios, transistors, steel plates, paper
rolls, cases of TEA, Bags of coffee seeds etc. + Read More
Bulk Carriers Ship: Bulk carriers are the great work horses of the shipping world,
carrying world, carrying raw dry cargoes such as coal, iron ore, grain, sulphur, scrap
metal in their huge cavernous holds. + Read More
Oil Tanker Ship: Tankers are designed to carry liquid cargoes (not just oil). Oil
tankers come in two basic types, the crude carrier, which carries crude oil, and the
clean products tanker, which carries the refined products, such as petrol, gasoline,
aviation fuel, kerosene and paraffin. + Read More
Container Ship: The container ship or Boxship is the great success story of the last
40 years. General cargo was historically carried in dry cargo vessels, without any
particular specialization. Cargo loading and unloading was always a low laborious
task, due to the varying shapes, sizes, weights and fragility of the numerous cargoes
being carried on any one vessel. + Read More
Pure Car Carrier Ship: Pure Car Carrier is a ship designed to carry cars in different
compartments of the ship Some ships are designed to carry cars in some
compartments and trucks in other compartments. + Read More
2. Chemical Tanker Ship: They range in size and construction but one thing is
common for them all. We are very much dependent upon the product they carry
every day. + Read More
Ro-Ro Ships: The Ro- Ro, or more fully the Roll on roll off vessel, come in a
number of shapes and sizes, but generally in two types; the passenger ro-ro and the
cargo ro-ro. + Read More
Liquefied Petroleum gas/Liquefied natural Gas Carrier Ship: The LNG carrier
(.Liquefied Natural Gas) and its cousin the LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) carrier is
a product of the late twentieth century. + Read More
Reefer Ships: In the year 1880 there was an important breakthrough, when 400
frozen car cases were carried safely by sea using a simple ship refrigeration plant to
keep them hard- frozen on a two month voyage from Australia to the United
Kingdom. + Read More
Heavy Lift Ships: Heavy loads were first carried on conventional cargo ship, either
handled by a port floating crane, or by the ship's "jumbo" derrick which would make
short work of loads like boilers or railway engines, up to about 100 tonnes. + Read
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