Bulk Cargo and General Cargo terms in Maritime Transportation; It is used for bulk cargoes other than grain cargoes loaded on a ship in containers and tanks, or loaded into a warehouse. Ships carrying these loads are called general cargo ships.
Partial loads; They are transferred to the ship in boxes, packages, drums or similar containers and are put in the holds reserved for them or in the places reserved in certain parts of those holds.
Pallets or elevated skids are used for UNIT loads that are brought together for ease of transport.
Although it is possible to deliver the cargo directly from the truck or wagon to the ship, the most used method is to deliver the cargo to the port and store it in a warehouse before the ship arrives at the port.
When the ship arrives, the material stored in the warehouse is brought to the loading area with vehicles, from here it is loaded either to the port or to the ship with the ship's load transfer vehicles.
In the evacuation process, the reverse of this order is valid.
However, the evacuated material can be delivered to the person concerned with customs procedures without being included in the port's stowage/storage capacity with a good planning.