Cargo ship

A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year, handling the bulk of international trade. Cargo ships are usually specially designed for the task, often being equipped with cranes and other mechanisms to load and unload, and come in all sizes. Today, they are almost always built by welded steel, and with some exceptions generally have a life expectancy of 25 to 30 years before being scrapped.

Types

Cargo ships/freighters can be divided into five groups, according to the type of cargo they carry. These groups are:

General cargo vessels

Tankers

Dry bulk carriers

Multi-purpose vessels

Reefer ships

General cargo vessels carry packaged items like chemicals, foods, furniture, machinery, motor- and military vehicles, footwear, garments, etc.

Tankers carry petroleum products or other liquid cargo.

Dry bulk carriers carry coal, grain, ore and other similar products in loose form.

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Latest News for: Freight ship

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Uber Freight is expanding into Europe

Crunch 20 Mar 2019

Uber Freight, the newly spun out Uber business unit that helps truck drivers connect with shipping companies, is kicking off its global expansion plans ... Local carriers and drivers will be able to book and move their first loads with Uber Freight in the next few weeks, CEO Lior Ron wrote in a blog posted Wednesday....

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uShip’s ‘In-Home Delivery’ Enhanced for Online Furniture Sellers

Market Watch 20 Mar 2019

Instant Shipping Rates ... uShip makes it quick, easy, and affordable to ship large or bulky items. From cars to cranes and furniture to freight, our straightforward and transparent platform helps people, businesses, e-commerce sellers, and multinational logistics companies ship with greater speed and efficiency....

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Peel Ports celebrates award win at Mersey Maritime Industry Awards

Dry Bulk 20 Mar 2019

Peel Ports has received the ‘freight ... 2018 was a year of significant milestones for Peel Ports, especially its container division in Liverpool, including a first direct call from China, its biggest container ship to date, a new rail freight service and a double-digit growth....

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Economic Watch: China accelerates rail-sea transit logistics

Xinhua 20 Mar 2019

Now, thanks to the rail-sea transit services, the tractors are transported in standard containers by freight trains to the port and directly loaded onto a ship ... China-Europe freight trains have made more than 13,000 trips so far, with the proportion of China-bound trips up by nearly 20 percentage points in 2018....

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Air Cargo Still Largely Unchecked

Information Clearing House 20 Mar 2019

... with largely unchecked freight into the bellies of those same planes ... Once the program takes off in San Francisco, which shipped roughly 500,000 tons of freight on both passenger and cargo flights last year, the aim is boosting the speed of the screening process at least sixfold....

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Here are the 88 companies that launched at YC’s W19 Demo Day 2

Crunch 20 Mar 2019

It’s tough to efficiently match available trucks with freight needing to be shipped if you don’t know where the trucks are ... Switchboard’s trucking freight marketplace launched three months ago and is already gathering data that could unlock more revenue streams....

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Soft CVTI Guidance Sparks Truckload Selloff

Yahoo Daily News 19 Mar 2019

Exclusive of the Landair acquisition, consolidated freight revenue should grow 5.5 percent in the first quarter year-over-year, Parker said, but that figure includes the asset-light brokerage division Covenant Transport Solutions ... On a national basis, freight volumes (OTVI.USA) are down approximately four percent year-over-year....

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Bribery Network to Bloat War Costs Is Alleged

Information Clearing House 19 Mar 2019

The executive, Kevin Andre Smoot, 43, of The Woodlands, Tex., served as a managing director for Eagle Global Logistics Incorporated, a carrier that received a subcontract from KBR to ship the freight ... for every kilogram (2.2 pounds) of freight on its own flights, the papers say....

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PFSweb, Inc. (PFSW) CEO Mike Willoughby on Q4 2018 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Seeking Alpha 19 Mar 2019

We successfully scaled our operation for the critical holiday peak week defined as the eight shipping days from Thanksgiving through the following week, Friday ... from one of these locations and safe freight compared to if they were shipping out of a centralized location....

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Inside the world of war profiteers

Information Clearing House 19 Mar 2019

By David Jackson and Jason Grotto ... or the Middle East ... In one case, a freight-shipping subcontractor confessed to giving $25,000 in illegal gratuities to five unnamed KBR employees "to build relationships to get additional business," according to the man's December 2007 statement to a federal judge in the Rock Island court ... troops in Iraq....

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Singapore based company willing to bring $2bn investment to Pakistan

The News International 18 Mar 2019

Currently Pakistan is paying four billion dollar freight to foreign ships which can be saved, Chairman of Global Radiance Group Abdul Latif Siddiqui said in an interview with The News ... Currently Pakistan is paying four billion dollar freight to foreign ships which can be saved, ......

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On this day in The Record: March 18

The Record 18 Mar 2019

Tuesday, March 18, 1919 ... While Republicans hope to convince Major Charles A. Mac Arthur of the city’s 105th U.S ... Ryan of the 106th Infantry to run for John F. Shannon’s seat on the state assembly ... U.S ... Calder, a first-term Republican, supports the idea of shipping freight from the Great Lakes via the barge canal to Troy, and from there down the Hudson....

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Horizon Global Corp (HZN) CEO Carl Bizon on Q4 2018 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Seeking Alpha 18 Mar 2019

Additionally, increased global freight and logistics cost and a tight labor market in the U.S ... In terms of freight, certainly as the summer selling season impacted the volumes that we needed to ship in 2018, that were certainly elevated through seasonality obviously there is a greater availability of transport, this time of year....