Types of ships

Special ships

Types of ships

RO RO (Roll On Roll Off) ships--> Roulier

Watch how the goods are loaded. In this case, you'll use maritime incoterms.

Bulk ships (here for cereals) --> Vraquier

The ship can partially sink in the water, while it is being loaded and then rise back to the surface during transport.

Special ships for floating, heavy and oversized loads such as an oil platform or another ship.

Chemical tankers can have up to 40 tanks isolated from each other. Theyr are called multi-purpose tankers. When there is a single tank dedicated to one kind of chemicals, they are called specialized tankers. For this kind of cargo, we use maritime incoterms.

Chemical tanker --> chimiquier

Fort his kind of cargo, we use maritime incoterms.

These ships have a double hull and their tanks are isolated from each other.

Click here to see inside one of the tanks.

Liquid Natural Gas tanker --> gazier

These ships are used for food in bulk (fruits, vegetables, fish …). There are fewer and fewer of them. There’s a trend to use refrigerated containers instead.

Refrigerated ships

Conventional ships --> navire conventionnel

For any type of heavy or oversized goods. They can load and unload the goods by themselves (they have their own load masts). With this kind of cargo, use maritime incoterms.

Container carrier --> porte-container

They are getting bigger and bigger (up to 24,000 TEU). The objective is to decrease the freight cost and the CO² emissions per container. With containers, always use multimodal incoterms.