Traditional bulk shipping is either considered dry bulk (like grains, salt, sugar, sand, iron ore and unmixed cement) or liquid bulk (like crude oil, petroleum and vegetable oil). Some items can’t fit ...

At one end of the break bulk market are crane-equipped general cargo ships. They tend to run a liner-like service and seek "triangulation" — i.e. to carry cargo on each leg of a long sea-going ...

The Port of Corpus Christi accepted 70 break bulk vessels containing wind energy components in 2015 and anticipated similar volumes in 2016. (Final numbers are being tallied.) ...

At the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s facilities in Newark, N.J. and Elizabeth, N.J., containerization accounts for 94% of the cargo, with break bulk about 1%; automobiles account ...

Break bulk is cargo shipped as separate pieces rather than in containers, which were also down in November compared to September and October. Courtesy Thinkstock “The month of November wasn’t as good ...

Currently in ‘break bulk’, this port is handling around 2 lakh tonne cargo in a month. Earlier, the same cargo used to be exported from Mundra, Pipavav and Hazira ports in containers,” Joshi ...

COLI Group’s subsidiary Asia Break Bulk (Singapore) has entered a strategic partnership with CSL Shipping (China) to market CSL’s multi-purpose carrier Jian Yang Hua Qing. The vessel has 2 x ...

Break bulk shipping: Australia's cotton industry is getting ready to once again use break bulk shipping for exports It involves transporting goods separately, rather than shipping them in a container ...

McLean, who died in 2001 at 87, shares the credit with the Bay Area's Matson Navigation Co., a longtime force in Pacific shipping. Two years after McLean loaded his ship, the Ideal-X, Matson's ...