{"id":388,"date":"2015-10-07T12:38:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T12:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/?p=388"},"modified":"2016-01-18T10:43:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T10:43:25","slug":"multi-purpose-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/multi-purpose-ships\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-purpose Ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/MACS-Advert-2016_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1291\" src=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/MACS-Advert-2016_1.jpg\" alt=\"MACS Advert 2016_1\" width=\"3074\" height=\"1314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/MACS-Advert-2016_1.jpg 3074w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/MACS-Advert-2016_1-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/MACS-Advert-2016_1-1024x438.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/MACS-Advert-2016_1-260x111.jpg 260w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/MACS-Advert-2016_1-50x21.jpg 50w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/MACS-Advert-2016_1-150x64.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3074px) 100vw, 3074px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Multi-purpose ships are designed to carry a number of types of cargo :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bulk Cargoes <\/strong>(e.g. grain, or minerals)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Neo-bulk Cargoes <\/strong>(e.g. blocks of granite; steel bars; rolls of paper)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Containers <\/strong>(on deck or perhaps in a specially designed hold)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Break-bulk Cargoes<\/strong> (e.g. bags of rice; boxes of vehicle parts; bales of wool; machinery; etc.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Liquid Cargoes <\/strong>&#8211; small amounts of liquid cargoes are sometimes carried in the deep tanks or other tanks (<em>See earlier diagram.<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They usually have tweendecks in some holds, while other holds that do not have tweendecks are suited to the carriage of bulk cargoes.<\/p>\n<p>They also have cranes to handle the cargo that they carry. Some multi-purpose ships have heavylift cranes that can lift large machines, railway locomotives, powerstation parts, or mining equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes these are called <strong>General Cargoships<\/strong> or simply <strong>Freighters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>[new_royalslider id=&#8221;5&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Multi-purpose ships are designed to carry a number of types of cargo : Bulk Cargoes (e.g. grain, or minerals) Neo-bulk Cargoes (e.g. blocks of granite; steel bars; rolls of paper) Containers (on deck or perhaps in a specially designed hold) Break-bulk Cargoes (e.g. bags of rice; boxes of vehicle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-1-1-5-4-multi-purpose-ships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}