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Most countries of the world operate fleets of merchant ships. However, due to the high costs of operations, today these fleets are in many cases sailing under the flags of nations that specialize in providing manpower and services at favourable terms. Such flags are known as "flags of convenience". Currently, Liberia and Panama are particularly favoured. Ownership of the vessels can be by any country, however. A flag of convenience is a flag of one country, flown by a ship owned by a citizen of another country. ...

The Greek-owned fleet is the largest in the world. Today, the Greek fleet accounts for some 16 per cent of the world’s tonnage; this makes it currently the largest single international merchant fleet in the world, albeit not the largest in history.^{[citation needed]} Shipping is arguably the oldest form of occupation of the Greeks. ...

In English, "Merchant Navy" without further clarification is used to refer to the British Merchant Navy; the United States merchant fleet is known as the United States Merchant Marine. The British Red Ensign. ... Source: This article contains material from the CIA World Factbook which, as a US government publication, is in the public domain. ...

Merchant ships may be divided into several categories, according to their purpose and/or size.

Dry Cargo ships

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Sabrina I carries bulk cargo inside her holds

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; they handle 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. Hapag-Lloyd Container ship Container ship A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1649x1080, 527 KB) Summary The Sabrina I photographed from atop the Astoria-Megler Bridge. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1649x1080, 527 KB) Summary The Sabrina I photographed from atop the Astoria-Megler Bridge. ... Italian Full rigged ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large watercraft capable of offshore navigation. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... International trade is the exchange of goods and services across international boundaries or territories. ... A modern crawler type derrick crane with outriggers. ...

Dry cargo ships, today are mainly bulk carriers and container ships. Bulk carriers or bulkers are used for the transportation of homogeneous cargo such as coal, rubber, copra, tin, wheat. Container ships are used for the carriage of miscellaneous goods. Container ship A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods and materials from one port to another. ... Main article: Merchant ship A bulk carrier, bulk freighter, or bulker is a merchant ship used to transport unpackaged bulk cargo such as cereals, coal, ore, and cement. ... Container ship in Istanbul Container ships are cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size containers, in a technique called containerization. ... Look up Homogeneous in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Coal Coal (IPA: ) is a fossil fuel formed in swamp ecosystems where plant remains were saved by water and mud from oxidization and biodegradation. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... Copra drying in the sun Copra is the dried meat, or kernel, of the coconut. ... General Name, Symbol, Number tin, Sn, 50 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 14, 5, p Appearance silvery lustrous gray Standard atomic weight 118. ... Species T. aestivum T. boeoticum T. compactum T. dicoccoides T. dicoccon T. durum T. monococcum T. spelta T. sphaerococcum T. timopheevii References:   ITIS 42236 2002-09-22 For the indie rock group see: Wheat (band). ...

Bulk carriers

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A bulk carrier is ocean-going vessel used to transport bulk cargo items such as iron ore, bauxite, coal, cement, grain and similar cargo. Bulk carriers can be recognized by large box-like hatches on deck, designed to slide outboard or fold fore-and-aft for enable access for loading or discharging cargo. The dimensions of bulk carriers are often determined by the ports and sea routes that they need to serve, and by the maximum width of the Panama Canal. Most lakes are too small to accommodate bulk carriers, but a large fleet of lake freighters has been plying the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway of North America for over a century. Main article: Merchant ship A bulk carrier, bulk freighter, or bulker is a merchant ship used to transport unpackaged bulk cargo such as cereals, coal, ore, and cement. ... Animated map exhibiting the worlds oceanic waters. ... Italian Full rigged ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large watercraft capable of offshore navigation. ... A mini-bulker taking on cargo in Brest. ... This heap of iron ore pellets will be used in steel production. ... The ill-fated SS Edmund Fitzgerald, built in the classic dual superstructure style with her wheelhouse up near the bow. ... The Great Lakes from space The Laurentian Great Lakes are a group of five large lakes in North America on or near the Canada-United States border. ... The Saint Lawrence Seaway in its broadest sense (see Great Lakes Waterway) is the system of canals that permits ocean-going vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes as far as Lake Superior. ... North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ...

Container ships

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Hapag-Lloyd Container ship

Container ships are cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size containers, in a technique called containerization. They form a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport. Container ship in Istanbul Container ships are cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size containers, in a technique called containerization. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 384 pixel Image in higher resolution (2000 × 959 pixel, file size: 352 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Container Ship in Halifax Harbour, picture taken November 4, 2006 by Bryson109 (myself). ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 384 pixel Image in higher resolution (2000 × 959 pixel, file size: 352 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Container Ship in Halifax Harbour, picture taken November 4, 2006 by Bryson109 (myself). ... Hapag-Lloyd is a German transportation company comprising a cargo container shipping line and a cruise line. ... Container ship in Istanbul Container ships are cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size containers, in a technique called containerization. ... Hapag-Lloyd Container ship Container ship A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. ... Shipping containers at a terminal in Port Elizabeth, New Jersey. ... An intermodal train carrying both shipping containers and highway semi-trailers in piggyback service, on flatcars, passes through the Cajon Pass in February, 1995. ...

Tankers

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Commercial crude oil supertanker AbQaiq.

A tanker is a ship designed to transport liquids in bulk. A tanker is a ship designed to transport liquids in bulk. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x436, 79 KB)Caption: 030628-N-6077T-003 Central Command Area of Responsibility (Jun. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x436, 79 KB)Caption: 030628-N-6077T-003 Central Command Area of Responsibility (Jun. ... A supertanker is an unofficial nickname that applies to a certain class of tanker ship built to transport very large quantities of liquids; in practice this typically refers to crude oil. ... Italian Full rigged ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large watercraft capable of offshore navigation. ... A liquid will assume the shape of its container. ... Bulk Liquids is a term associated with commerical transportaion of liquids in large volumes, usually not including petroleum products. ...

Tankers for the transport of fluids, such as crude oil, petroleum products, liquefied petroleum gas, liquefied natural gas and chemicals, also vegetable oils, wine and other food - the tanker sector comprises one third of the world tonnage. A tanker is usually a vehicle carrying large amounts of liquid fuel. ... Pumpjack pumping an oil well near Sarnia, Ontario Petroleum (from Greek petra – rock and elaion – oil or Latin oleum – oil ) or crude oil is a thick, dark brown or greenish liquid. ... Pumpjack pumping an oil well near Lubbock, Texas Ignacy Łukasiewicz - inventor of the refining of kerosene from crude oil. ... 45 kg LPG cylinders Liquefied petroleum gas (also called liquified petroleum gas, liquid petroleum gas, LPG, LP Gas, or autogas) is a mixture of hydrocarbon gases used as a fuel in heating appliances and vehicles, and increasingly replacing chlorofluorocarbons as an aerosol propellant and a refrigerant to reduce damage to... Liquefied natural gas or LNG is natural gas that has been processed to remove either valuable components e. ... A chemical substance is any material substance used in or obtained by a process in chemistry: A chemical compound is a substance consisting of two or more chemical elements that are chemically combined in fixed proportions. ... A vegetable oil or vegoil is an oil extracted from oilseeds or another plant source. ... A glass of red wine This article is about the alcoholic beverage. ...

Tankers can range in size from several hundred tons, designed for servicing small harbours and coastal settlements, to several hundred thousand tons, with these being designed for long-range haulage. A wide range of products are carried by tankers, including: Tonnage is a measure of the size or cargo capacity of a ship. ...

• hydrocarbon products such as oil, LPG, and LNG
• Chemicals, such as ammonia, chlorine, and styrene monomer
• fresh water
• wine

Different products require different handling and transport, thus special types of tankers have been built, such as "chemical tankers" and "oil tankers". "LNG carriers" as they are typically known, are a relatively rare tanker designed to carry liquefied natural gas. Oil refineries are key to obtaining hydrocarbons; crude oil is processed through several stages to form desirable hydrocarbons, used in fuel and other commercial products. ... Synthetic motor oil An oil is any substance that is in a viscous liquid state (oily) at ambient temperatures or slightly warmer, and is both hydrophobic (immiscible with water, literally water fearing) and lipophilic (miscible with other oils, literally fat loving). This general definition includes compound classes with otherwise unrelated... 45 kg LPG cylinders Spherical Gas Container typically found in Refineries. ... Liquefied natural gas or LNG is natural gas that has been processed to remove either valuable components e. ... Water and steam are two different forms of the same chemical substance A chemical substance is any material with a definite chemical composition, no matter where it comes from. ... Ammonia is a compound with the formula NH3. ... General Name, Symbol, Number chlorine, Cl, 17 Chemical series halogens Group, Period, Block 17, 3, p Appearance yellowish green Standard atomic weight 35. ... C8H8 redirects here. ... For the village on the Isle of Wight, see Freshwater, Isle of Wight. ... A glass of red wine This article is about the alcoholic beverage. ... A chemical tanker is a type of tanker designed to transport chemicals in bulk. ... A tanker is usually a vehicle carrying large amounts of liquid fuel. ... An LNG carrier is a ship designed for transporting liquefied natural gas. ... Liquefied natural gas or LNG is natural gas that has been processed to remove either valuable components e. ...

Among oil tankers, supertankers were designed for carrying oil around the Horn of Africa from the Middle East; the FSO Knock Nevis being the largest vessel in the world. Knock Nevis was formerly the ULCC "Jahre Viking". A supertanker is an unofficial nickname that applies to a certain class of tanker ship built to transport very large quantities of liquids; in practice this typically refers to crude oil. ... The Horn of Africa. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... The Knock Nevis leaving Dubai Drydock after being converted to a FSO. The Knock Nevis is a Norwegian owned supertanker, formerly known as Seawise Giant, Happy Giant, and Jahre Viking. ...

Apart from pipeline transport, supertankers are the only method for transporting large quantities of oil, although such tankers have caused large environmental disasters when sinking close to coastal regions, causing oil spills. See Exxon Valdez, Braer, Prestige, Torrey Canyon, Erika, for examples of tankers that have caused oil spills. An elevated section of the Alaska Pipeline. ... An oil spill is the unintentional release of liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment as a result of human activity. ... This article is about the tank vessel Exxon Valdez. ... The Prestige was a oil tanker whose sinking in 2002 off the Spanish coast caused a huge oil spill. ... The Torrey Canyon was the first of the big supertankers, capable of carrying a cargo of 120,000 tons of crude oil, and was wrecked off the western coast of Cornwall in 1967 causing an environmental disaster. ... Erika was the name of a tanker built in 1975 and last chartered by Total-Fina-Elf. ...

Specialised ships

Specialised ships, e.g. for heavy lift goods or refrigerated cargo, roll on/roll off cargo (RoRo) ships for vehicles and wheeled machinery. Skaugran Oslo Loading a Ro Ro passenger car ferry The Cetus Leader A Canadian RORO Ferry A PCC ships starboard side showing side ramp. ...

Coasters

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Coasters, smaller ships for any category of cargo which are normally not on ocean-crossing routes, but in coastwise trades. Coasters are shallow-hulled ships used for trade between locations on the same island or continent. Their shallow hulls mean that they can get through reefs where sea-going ships usually cannot (sea-going ships have a very deep hull for supplies and trade etc.). Coastal trading vessels, also known as coasters, are shallow-hulled ships used for trade between locations on the same island or continent. ... Coastal trading vessels, also known as coasters, are shallow-hulled ships used for trade between locations on the same island or continent. ... Italian Full rigged ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large watercraft capable of offshore navigation. ... A reef surrounding an islet. ...

Passenger ships

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A passenger ship is a ship whose primary function is to carry passengers. The category does not include cargo vessels which have accommodations for limited numbers of passengers, such as the ubiquitous twelve-passenger freighters once common on the seas in which the transport of passengers is secondary to the carriage of freight. The type does however include many classes of ships which are designed to transport substantial numbers of passengers as well as freight. Indeed, until recently virtually all ocean liners were able to transport mail, package freight and express, and other cargo in addition to passenger luggage, and were equipped with cargo holds and derricks, kingposts, or other cargo-handling gear for that purpose. Modern cruiseferries have car decks for lorries as well as the paseenger's cars. Only in more recent ocean liners and in virtually all cruise ships has this cargo capacity been suppressed. A passenger ship is a ship whose primary function is to carry passengers. ... Italian Full rigged ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large watercraft capable of offshore navigation. ... Hapag-Lloyd Container ship Container ship A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary. ... Pride of Bilbao, a cruise ferry operated by P&O Ferries. ... Loading a ro-ro passenger car ferry Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro) ships are designed to carry wheeled cargo such as automobiles, trailers or railway carriages. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Pacific Sky sails under Sydney Harbour Bridge A cruise ship or a cruise liner is a passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ships amenities are considered an essential part of the experience. ...

Cruise ships

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Pacific Sky sails under Sydney Harbour Bridge

A cruise ship or a cruise liner is a passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ship's amenities are considered an essential part of the experience. Cruising has become a major part of the tourism industry, with millions of passengers each year as of 2006. The industry's rapid growth has seen nine or more newly built ships catering to a North American clientele added every year since 2001, as well as others servicing European clientele. Smaller markets such as the Asia-Pacific region are generally serviced by older tonnage displaced by new ships introduced into the high growth areas. Pacific Sky sails under Sydney Harbour Bridge A cruise ship or a cruise liner is a passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ships amenities are considered an essential part of the experience. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Pacskysydbridge_web. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Pacskysydbridge_web. ... The Pacific Sky, (formerly Sky Princess), was an Australian cruise ship operated by P&O Cruises Australia (November 2000 - May 2006). ... JULIUS IS GAY!!! The Sydney Harbour Bridge is the main crossing of Sydney Harbour carrying rail, vehicular, and pedestrian traffic between the Sydney central business district (CBD) and the North Shore. ... A passenger ship is a ship whose primary function is to carry passengers. ... A cruising sailboat anchored in the San Blas Islands, in Panama. ... Tourists on Oahu, Hawaii Tourism is travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes or the provision of services to support this leisure travel. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... World map showing the location of Europe. ... Small Text For other uses, see Asia (disambiguation). ... For other meanings of Pacific, see Pacific (disambiguation). ...

Cruise ships operate on a mostly set roundabout course (i.e. they tend to return to their orginating port) whereas ocean liners are defined by actually doing ocean-crossing voyages, which may not lead back to the same port for years.^[1]

Ferries

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The ferryboat at Kei Mouth with the former Transkei opposite on the eastern bank, ca.2006.

A ferry is a form of transport, usually a boat or ship, but also other forms, carrying (or ferrying) passengers and sometimes their vehicles. Ferries are also used to transport freight (in lorries and sometimes unpowered freight containers) and even railroad cars. Most ferries operate on regular, frequent, return services. A foot-passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, is sometimes called a waterbus or water taxi. The ferryboat Dongan Hills, filled with commuters, about to dock at a New York City pier, ca. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 350 KB) Author: Gregorydavid 18:51, 10 January 2007 (UTC) I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 350 KB) Author: Gregorydavid 18:51, 10 January 2007 (UTC) I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... The Great Kei River is a river in South Africa. ... Flag of Transkei bantustan Political Map of South Africa prior to 1994 Transkei, as of 1978 The Transkei — which means the area beyond the Kei River — is a region situated in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Italian Full rigged ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large watercraft capable of offshore navigation. ... This is the top-level page of WikiProject trains Rail tracks Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ... Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venezsia, Latin: Venetia) is a city in northern Italy, the capital of region Veneto, and has a population of 271,251 (census estimate January 1, 2004). ... A New York Water Taxi docks at Pier 11 near Wall Street. ...

Ferries form a part of the public transport systems of many waterside cities, allowing direct transit between points at a capital cost much lower than bridges or tunnels. Skytrain Bangkok. ... A log bridge in the French Alps near Vallorcine. ... A disused railway tunnel now converted to pedestrian and bicycle use, near Houyet, Belgium A tunnel is an underground passage. ...

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