Break Bulk Cargo

Cargo that is too big or too heavy to be loaded onto a flat rack container can be loaded directly onto the vessel. These are known as Break Bulk Cargoes.

On Deck Stowage

Cargo such as ships that are too large to be loaded into the hold and are not damaged by water can be directly loaded on deck. On rare occasions, cargo can be stowed directly atop the hatch covers.

Under Deck Stowage

Usually empty flat rack containers are stacked in the second or third tier from the top side-by-side in the hold and cargo is loaded on top of these.

One of NYK's many strong points is the long years of experience which has built up in the safe stowage of cargo such as in dispersing loads and securing. The size of holds depends on the vessel. Just as an example, when 40 foot flat rack containers are lined up in groups of four it is possible to make effective use of a 40' x 32' space.

Heavy cargo that exceeds the weight restriction on gantry cranes is handled by floating cranes. Since direct loading and direct delivery are the rule in such cases, loading and unloading are coordinated with the vessel's cargo handling schedule. Therefore it is necessary to fully coordinate matters with all concerned beforehand.

In shipping the term Break bulk derives from the phrase breaking bulk Break bulk products are mainly steel, lumber and wood.

Before containers, goods were shipped in individual boxes, barrels, bales, bags, crates and many other methods of enclosing goods for a long sea voyage. Each item had to be manhandled, making the job of loading and off-loading cargo one of the most labour intensive of the maritime trades. The storage of items in the holds was a specialised business, not only for the preservation of the cargo, but to ensure that the ship was not subject to the shifting of cargo in transit, a dangerous situation for any vessel. The process of loading or unloading a ship took close cooperation between the ship’s officers, the stevedoring firm and the dockworkers or longshoremen.
Many items could not be packaged or boxed and were shipped as is, such as the great cast iron plates that make up the “walls” of Gibbs Hill Lighthouse, one of Bermuda’s greatest monuments of the mid-Victorian period. Another industrial example shipped without wrappers would be the great wheels for a winch and accompanying Ormerod steam engine for a St. George’s boatyard, recently saved from demolition by the National Museum.

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Breakbulk Vessels – Used for the carriage of various kinds of cargoes – bagged cargo (cement, sugar etc), palletised cargo (paint, chemicals etc), timber etc etc

Ro-Ro Vessels – Used for the carriage of wheeled cargo like cars, buses, trucks, exacavators etc etc.. Where the option is available, these vsls can also carry some project cargoes as long as these are loaded on mafi trailers or any other wheeled modes.. Further classified as PCC (Pure Car Carriers) & PCTC (Pure Car & Truck Carriers) the purpose of which are obvious from the names..

In shipping, break bulk cargo or general cargo is a term that covers a great variety of goods that must be loaded individually, and not in intermodal containers nor in bulk as with oil or grain. Ships or carriers that carry this sort of cargo are often called general cargo ships.

The term break bulk is derived from the phrase breaking bulk — the extraction of a portion of the cargo of a ship or the beginning of the unloading process from the ship's holds.
These goods may be in shipping containers (bags, boxes, crates, drums, barrels). Unit loads of items secured to a pallet or skid are also used.

A break-in-bulk point is a place where goods are transferred from one mode of transport to another, for example the docks where goods transfer from ship to truck.

Break bulk was the most common form of cargo for most of the history of shipping.

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New Riverside Ro-Ro Terminal for Grimsby
Breakbulk Staff | Fri, 12/02/2011 - 02:16
Breakbulk Online - News Story * Ports + Terminals | * RoRo | * Western Europe

Port of Grimsby will undergo a US$39 million expansion to meet increasing car imports. The port already handles the largest auto volume of any U.K. port. In 2010, Grimsby saw 635,000 vehicles.
Currently, access to Grimsby’s Alexandra Dock is limited by the Royal Lock, which can only accommodate vessels carrying up to 800 vehicles. After the expansion, Grimsby will offer lock-free access for two vessels carrying up to 3,000 vehicles each.
The port’s owners, Associated British Ports, will build a new terminal and new jetties on the River Humber to accommodate larger ro-ro vessels. The new Grimsby Riverside Terminal will handle boats as well as vehicles, according to a port statement. ABP recently announced it had signed a new long term agreement with Volkswagen Group U.K.
Work will begin in early 2012 and the new facilities are schedules to be completed by fall 2013.

BHEL to Power Ukraine Steel Mill
Breakbulk Staff | Tue, 12/06/2011 - 04:39
Breakbulk Online - News Story * Steel + Metals | * Traditional Power Generation | * Europe
India’s state-run BHEL has won a contract from ArcelorMittal to supply power equipment for a new steel mill in the Ukraine.
BHEL will provide a the steam turbine generator package for the captive power project at the new steel plant at Kryviy Rih, according to a company statement. BHEL’s contract includes design, engineering, manufacture, supply and supervision of the erection and commissioning of the 27-megawatt steam turbine amd generator package.
The equipment will be made at BHEL’s Hyderabad plant. The plant is scheduled to be completed in 18 months.

1 BREAK BULK CARGO
1.1 Definition
Break bulk cargo is also defined as general cargo. Such cargo is loaded into ships as individual pieces or unitised on pallets, in bundles and is not containerised nor in the form of dry or liquid bulk consignments in whole or part shiploads.
1.2 Types of Break Bulk Cargo
The SAL Break Bulk Working Group agreed that the cargoes to which this study refers should generally exclude and include the following:
To be excluded: ƒ Dry/Liquid bulk cargoes e.g. ore/oil/coal/woodchips and builtup motor vehicles and trucks because of the specialised nature of these trades.
To be included: ƒ Unpacked motor vehicles to the extent only when they compete with the break bulk cargo for wharf space and facilities. ƒ Heavy lifts and project cargoes e.g. wind power generating equipment on ships that use break bulk wharves and facilities.
ƒ Timber, steel and other non-bulk commodities.
Break bulk commodities that move through Australian ports as reported by members of the Break Bulk Working Group include:
Table 1: Principal Break Bulk Cargoes Imported in to/Exported out of Australia
Machinery Steel Project Cargoes General Cargoes Others
Farm Machinery Coil Oilfield Equipment Timber Veneer Timber
Mining
(including tyres) Pipes Refinery Equipment
Oilfield/Drilling
Equipment
Newsprint
Civil
Engineering
Angles and channel Pipes for mining industry Bulker Bags eg.
Ammonium Nitrate
Paper pulp
Merchant bar
Power Generation Boats (Yacht)
Defence
Equipment
Plate Transformers Copper
Windmills Zinc
Steel structures Construction Modules
Locomotives
Sources: Statistics provided by break bulk shipping lines.
Shipping Companies’ feedback in SAL breakbulk study questionnaires and interviews.
Shipping company interviews and visits to Port Kembla and Brisbane indicate that the majority of break bulk cargoes by volume are steel, machinery and timber.
42 THE IMPORTANCE OF BREAK BULK CARGO
2.1 The Nature of Break Bulk Cargo
Although most seaborne general cargoes are now containerised with resultant benefits – reduction in cargo handling, reducing the possibility of loss and damage and providing better protection - break bulk cargo will remain an extremely important cargo into the future. In particular, shipments of oversized and heavyweight items e.g. mining machinery, excavators, construction steel, refinery equipment for oil projects, generators and turbines for renewable electrical generation that cannot fit into containers, are all considered to be break bulk cargo.
Some steel products might be suitable for containers however according to one major steel importer, “Most steel products have never been conducive to being containerised for sea transportation. The heavy package weights and over dimensional sizes plus the sheer volume of shipments means that these cargoes must be shipped break bulk.”. All of these cargoes are critically important for future infrastructure development in
Australia such as railways, roads, ports, power plants and wind farm projects, housing and manufacturing.
2.2 Value of Break Bulk Cargo
Traditionally, many high value products and goods were packaged and shipped as break bulk cargoes and this situation has not changed. Today, most of the break bulk cargoes carried remain highly valuable products e.g. windmills, power generator, steel products.
One break bulk working group member also indicated that much of the break bulk cargoes carried by their ships comprise highly valuable commodities.

4 INTERNATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF BREAK BULK CARGO
Break bulk, the forgotten cousin of the global shipping industry, has received international attention recently mainly due to the large number of major infrastructure and commercial projects underway worldwide e.g. mining projects and renewable wind power projects. The demand for break bulk cargo space for machinery, equipment and components needed for construction of these projects has been strengthening for some time across Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Asia and Africa as well as for Australia (Barnard 2007). Although the global economic downturn caused by the GFC has softened the demand for many break bulk cargoes, the long term international significance of break bulk cargo to be moved by sea cannot be discounted.
In the USA, break bulk cargo has been perceived as an important one for the shipping industry and is expected to remain strong at least for the next ten years
(GlobalSecurity.org n.d.). Although the global economic recession threatens to slow the overall increase in containerized trade to/from the USA, the growth of breakbulk business is not likely to slow to the same extent. The main break bulk ports in the USA are attracting new break bulk services to handle the increasing traffic (Leach 2008). For instance, in March, 2009, South Carolina Port Authority reported a 26.5% increase in break bulk volume for this fiscal year, compared with 2008 (Bird 2009). The cargoes included machinery and wind turbine equipment and are providing steady business for break bulk ports and carriers (Leach 2007; Nodar 2008). Interestingly, US ports are seeing sizeable volumes of used equipment being shipped to the Middle East, West
Africa, India, China, South America and Russia (Leach 2008). The interest in wind power has seen a considerable rise in the number of vessels that carried wind energy components to a number of East Coast US ports (Nodar 2008).

The shipping of break bulk goods such as cocoa beans from third world nations to the United States provides an example of the conventional shipping process. The cocoa beans are grown abroad, harvested and packed into 150 pound sacks. The sacks are transported to the dock area where they are placed on pallets having lifting slings attached, commonly referred to as a sling and/or sling load of cocoa beans. A typical sling of cocoa beans contains 30-35 sacks.
The slings of cargo are arranged in groups adjacent to each other, the number of slings per group preferably equalling the capacity of the on-board crane which the ship employs. In view of the low labor cost in third world countries, it is not unusual to have the entire preparation operation done by manual labor. Accordingly, when the empty ship docks to pick up a load of cocoa beans, appropriate groups of slings of cocoa beans are in place on the dock to be loaded onto the ship by the ship's crane.
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