Types of Ships

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Shipping – Facts & Figures

• World Fleet of Merchant Ships –

30 to 40,000 ships
• Total Tonnage – 600 – 650 million DWT
• Tankers - ~ 8000 vessels
• Ocean Going Dry Cargo ~ 15,000 vessels

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 Types of Ships

Others
•Fishing vessels
•Cable laying ships
•Research ships
Ships which carry things
•Ships which keep
sea lanes open
•Tugs / survey ships
/ dredgers

Passenger Ships Cargo Ships

•Long Distance •General Cargo Ships
•Short Distance (Ferries) •Bulk Cargo Ships
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General Cargo Ships
• Break – Bulk Ships
– General Cargo (Multi Deck Ships – ‘Tween Decks)
6 – 16000 DWT; Speeds of 10 – 15 Knots
– Pallet Loading Ships
• Unit Load Ships
– Cellular Ships – 1800 – 8500 TEUs;
33 knots – 60 kmph speeds
– Barge Carrying Ships
– Roll-On-Roll-Off (RORO) Ships
– Feeder – Mother Ships
• Combi – Ships
– Break Bulk + 400 - 600 Containers
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Break Bulk Ship
Crew
Accommodation
Hatch Funnel
Cover
Hatch Flag
Hold

Propeller

Deck Engine Rudder

Hull
Room 6
Break – Bulk
Ship being
Loaded

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Loading of Break Bulk Ship

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Heavy Lifter

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Heavy Lifter

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Feeder Ship

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Feeder Ship

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Feeder Ship Being Loaded

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Feeder Ship

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Mother Ship

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Container Ship being Loaded

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Mother Ship

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Mother Ship

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Barge Carriers

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Barge Carriers

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Barge Carriers

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Barge & Tug in the Great Lakes

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RORO – Cross section

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RORO Ship

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RORO

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RORO Ship

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RORO Ship

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RORO Ship

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RORO Ship

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Bulk Cargo Ships
• Dry Bulk Carriers
• Tankers – Wet Bulk Carriers
• Specialist Carriers
– Timber
– Chemicals
– Beer
– Wine
• Combi – Carriers
– O/O – Oil & Ore Carriers
– OBO – Oil, Bulk & Ore Carriers
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Dry Bulk Carriers
• Mini Bulk – 3 - 20,000 tons
• Handy Size – 20 – 40,000 tons
• Handymax – 40 – 50,000 tons
• Panamax – 50 – 80,000 tons
• Suezmax
• Cape Size > 80,000 tons
– Handy Cape 80 - 120,000 tons
– Cape 120 - 170,000 tons
– Large Cape > 170,000 tons
• Ore Carriers, VLO’s – Very Large Ore
Carriers > 200,000 tons
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 Dry Bulk
Loaded in Ship

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 Dry Bulk
Loaded in Ship

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Loading of Urea

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Handymax Dry Bulk Carrier

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Handymax Dry Bulk Carrier

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Handymax Dry Bulk Carrier

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Coal Being Unloaded

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Handymax Dry Bulk Carrier

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Barge being pulled by Tug

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Dry Bulk being unloaded

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Loading of Dry Bulk

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Coal being Loaded

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Frozen River

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Dry Bulk Carrier in the Great Lakes

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Dry Bulk Carrier in the Great Lakes

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Dry Bulk Carrier in the Great Lakes

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Tug Pulling Bulk Carrier up the River

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Tug Pulling Bulk Carrier up the River

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Crushed Stone Barge

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Canal System in France

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Canal System in Germany

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Canal ‘Fly-over’

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Dry Bulk Carrier

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VL Ore Carrier

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World’s Largest Dry Bulk Carrier

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Loading of Dry Bulk

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Tankers - Wet Bulk Carriers
• Product Carriers – 30 – 150,000 tons
• Crude Carriers – Dirty sector
> 30,000 tons
• Special Carriers
– Solvents
– Parcel carriers – diff. types of chemical
products at the same time
– Gas Tankers
• LPG
• LNG
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Tankers - Wet Bulk Carriers
• Handy Size – 30 – 60,000 tons
• Panamax – 60 – 80,000 tons
• Aframax – 80 – 120,000 tons
• Suezmax – 120 – 200,000 tons
• VLCC – Very Large Crude Carriers
200 – 300,000 tons
• ULCC – Ultra Large Crude Carriers
300 – 500,000 tons ; Speeds of 16
knots i.e. 30 kmph
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Tanker Sizes

Class Length Beam Draft Overview

Coastal Less than 50,000 deadweight tons, mainly used for

205 m 29 m 16 m
Tanker transportation of refined products (gasoline, gasoil).
Approximately 80,000 deadweight tons (American Freight
Aframax 245 m 34 m 20 m
Rate Association).

Between 125,000 and 180,000 deadweight tons, originally

Suezmax 285 m 45 m 23 m
the maximum capacity of the Suez Canal.

Very Large Crude Carrier. Up to around 300,000

VLCC 350 m 55 m 28 m
deadweight tons of crude oil.

Ultra Large Crude Carrier. Capacity exceeding 300,000

ULCC 415 m 63 m 35 m deadweight tons. The largest tankers ever built have a
deadweight of over 550,000 deadweight tons.

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Chemical Carrier

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Tanker

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Aframax Tanker

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VLCC Tanker

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Tanker at Sea

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Tanker at Sea

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