Types of ships

Types of ships

Special ships

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

Bulk ships (here for cereals) --> Vraquier

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

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

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

Chemical tanker --> chimiquier

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.

Liquid Natural Gas tanker --> gazier

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

Click here to see inside one of the tanks.

Fort his kind of cargo, we use maritime incoterms.

Refrigerated ships

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.

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.