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Type of Ships in Merchant Navy

Ships are generally categorized based on their use, their type of cargo, and the method by which the cargo is loaded.

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Type of Ships in Merchant Navy

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  1. Types of Ships Types of Ships Any Questions Email us at apply@careerinmerchantnavy.comand Our Officer will ready to help you in any...

  2. 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: Any Questions Email us at apply@careerinmerchantnavy.comand Our Officer will ready to help you in any...

  3. 1. 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 2. 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 3. 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 Any Questions Email us at apply@careerinmerchantnavy.comand Our Officer will ready to help you in any...

  4. 4. 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 5. 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 6. 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 Any Questions Email us at apply@careerinmerchantnavy.comand Our Officer will ready to help you in any...

  5. 7. 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 8. 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 Any Questions Email us at apply@careerinmerchantnavy.comand Our Officer will ready to help you in any...

  6. 9. 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 10. 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 More Any Questions Email us at apply@careerinmerchantnavy.comand Our Officer will ready to help you in any...

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