A breakbulk cargo can be anything from forest products to paper rolls to steel girders, metal drums and much larger items. The exception is vehicles, which are shipped aboard roll-on/roll-off vessels.

While the port’s breakbulk cargo numbers fluctuated prior to the tariff hike, the last couple of years have been more drastic. Total breakbulk tonnage for calendar year 2015 was 3,520,852, which ...

He says break bulk covers a "fairly broad range of cargo types," arguing that the key defining characters are that it is unitized (e.g. bales of pulp, metal ingots) rather than bulk like grain or ore.

The Port of New Orleans imported 2.48 million tons of steel in FY 2017, which epitomizes 83 percent of the port’s breakbulk tonnage and 30 percent of the its total general cargo tonnage. Photo ...

Home Brand View DP World: Pioneering breakbulk logistics globally In 2023, DP World’s Jebel Ali Port handled over 4.35 million tonnes of breakbulk cargo, adding to the 40 million tonnes handled ...

The Port of Corpus Christi accepted 70 break bulk vessels containing wind energy components in 2015 and anticipated similar volumes in 2016. (Final numbers are being tallied.) ...

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has introduced a new breakbulk cargo stowage solution, the Breakbulk Optimizer, which enables operators to rapidly and optimally plan the stowage of many different ...

The port of Baltimore had another historic year in 2018. The Maryland Port Administration’s public terminals handled 10.9 million tons of general cargo — more containers, cars, construction ...

The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) has instituted a new tracking system to process breakbulk cargo more quickly, and provide real-time freight tracking for GPA and its customers. "The new system ...

What is break bulk cargo, exactly? It's very hard to define but, as a famous quote says, "we know it when we see it." Expert views differ on what break bulk is exactly. There's a general consensus ...