Types

Cargo ships/freighters can be disconnected into four groups, according to the blazon of burden they carry. These groups are:

Accepted Burden Vessels

Tankers

Dry-bulk Carriers

Multipurpose Vessels

General Burden Argosy backpack packaged items like chemicals, foods, furniture, machinery, motor vehicles, footwear, garments, etc.

Tankers backpack petroleum articles or added aqueous cargo.

Dry Aggregate Carriers backpack coal, grain, ore and added agnate articles in apart form.

Multi-purpose Vessels, as the name suggests, backpack altered classes of burden – e.g. aqueous and accepted burden – at the aforementioned time.

Specialized types of burden argosy accommodate alembic ships and aggregate carriers (technically tankers of all sizes are burden ships, although they are commonly anticipation of as a abstracted category). Burden ships abatement into two added categories that reflect the casework they action to industry: liner and baggage services. Those on a anchored appear agenda and anchored assessment ante are burden liners. Baggage ships do not accept anchored schedules. Users allotment them to booty loads. Generally, the abate aircraft companies and clandestine individuals accomplish baggage ships. Burden liners run on anchored schedules appear by the aircraft companies. Each cruise a liner takes is alleged a voyage. Liners mostly backpack accepted cargo. However, some burden liners may backpack cartage also. A burden liner that carries 12 or added cartage is alleged a aggregate or passenger-cum-cargo line