Cargo ship
A cargo ship , or freighter for short , is a merchant ship whose construction is intended exclusively or preferably for the transport of cargo . Colloquially and in short, the goods transported by a ship are called freight. In legal terms, freight is the remuneration that is paid for the carriage of the goods.
Classic freighter
Today's cargo ships
The following types of cargo ships are best known today:
Maritime shipping
- BACO carrier
- Barge
- BORO freighter
- ConBulk ship
- Container Ship
- Dock ship
- Feeder ship
- Gas tanker
- Commercial submarine
- Keelboat
- Reefer ship
- Coaster
- Lighter Aboard Ship
- Barge
- Lighter
- Bulk carrier
- Narrowboat
- River sea ship
- RoPax ship
- Ro-Ro ship
- Heavy lift carrier
- General cargo ship
- Tanker
- Animal transporter
Inland shipping
- Motor ship
- Motor tanker
- Container Ship
- Ro-Ro ship
- Car transporter
- Coaster
- Reefer ship
Trivia
The beer boat in Utrecht is the world's first purely electrically powered cargo ship. It has been running in the city center of Utrecht since January 19, 2010 and supplies the catering establishments. The Swedish Sydfart is the oldest motor freighter still in service in the world.
See also
- Category: Type of cargo ship
- Freighter voyage
- Line freighter
- Secured Commercial Strategic Sea Transport
Web links
Commons : Cargo Ships - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: cargo ship - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt (1954)
- ^ Hamburger Abendblatt (1957)
- ^ Arnold Kludas : The Age of Steamship , in: Ships . Tessloff, Nuremberg 2010, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7886-0265-9 , p. 18.