A bulk carrier or bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo, typically grain, coal, ore, forest products, steel coils, or cement, in its cargo holds.
Sabrina I is a modern Handymax bulk carrier
Bulk carrier and loading apparatus, Seattle (2010)
Bulk carriers in the Port of Liverpool (2018)
Federal Margaree on the Great Lakes (2005)
Capesize ships are the largest dry cargo ships with ball mark dimension: about 170,000 DWT capacity, 290 m long, 45 m beam, 18 m draught. They are too large to transit the Suez Canal or Panama Canal,
Bulk carrier
…tons of bulk cargo were moved on the Great Lakes. Bulk carriers are segregated into six major size categories: small, handysize, handymax, panamax, capesize, and very large. Very large bulk and ore carriers fall into the capesize category but are often considered separately. Categories occur in regional…
MV Berge Athene, a capesize bulk carrier of 225,200 DWT, built in 1979
After deepening of the Suez Canal, a formerly capesize bulk carrier approaches the Suez Canal Bridge.
Capesize bulk carrier Cape Elise of 174,124 DWT at Inchgreen quay, Greenock, Scotland, for repairs in March 2014 after being struck by a massive wave. At 289 metres long, it was the largest ship to dock at Greenock in 20 years.