12.types of ship

Prior to the days of containerization, all cargo was carried on what is know as general cargo ships. The cargo was known as break-bulk cargo. With the advent of containerization there are fewer general cargo ships. Generally, they carry cargo that is too large to be carried in a container, for example, steel, rolls of wire and machinery. However, they also carry boxed goods that are too small to justify use of a full container. They are much slower to load/unload and thus have longer port times. Here is an example in a in another photo from Maik Ebel. A variation of the general cargo ship is the a ship who's sole purpose is to carry bananas. Containerships: If you take a freighter voyage the chances are that it will be on a containership, also known as "box" ships. The "boxes" they carry are containers that generally are found in twenty and forty foot lengths. They can be filled with just about any type of cargo, from televisions sets to fruit or meat. The containers that carry frozen or chilled food are know as "refers", or refrigerated containers. The capacity of a containership is measured in T.E.U (technical equivalent units). Thus, a freighter that can carry 1,600 T.E.E.'s is a bit small by the standards of some of the giant container ships that ply the seas of the world today. Here is a an aerial of a containership capable of carrying 1600 T.E.U.'s. This is a sister ship of the vessel I sailed on from Los Angeles, CA., to Australia. The Region is one of the largest containerships in the world, capable of carrying about 6600 T.E.U.'s. Expeditions Ships: carry between 52 and 117 passengers on voyages to the Antarctic, South Georgia and the Falklands, Patagonia, Islands of the South Atlantic, the Amazon, Iceland, Greenland, the Northwest Passage, Hudson Bay, plus Lost Islands of the South Pacific, Polynesia, Melanesia and the Russian Far East are available via the The Cruise People, Ltd., Maris Freighter Cruises and TravlTips, as well as traditional freighter voyages.