Types of Ships in Merchant Navy

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Types of Ships
Types of Ships
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. 
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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
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