Bulk shipping is a form of mass shipping where goods in bulk quantity are loaded into vessels without any packaging process. As a matter of fact, each day, massive ships move thousands of tons of bulk cargo in the whole world. These ships can transport up to 400,000 metric tons of weight, and it accounts for almost 21% of merchant fleets all over the world.

Bulk shipping is a challenging process, but there are specially built carrier ships that make the overall transportation of bulk goods an easy process.

Types of goods you can send by Bulk Shipping?

Many products ship in bulk shipping. They are classified as Solid and Liquid Bulk

Solid Bulk Goods

Solid bulk goods are also known as dry bulk. Dry bulk could be any type of minerals, grains, chemicals, and other items like wood or salt. As mentioned earlier, the dry bulk goods are shipped using a bulk carrier via large shipping vessels. These shipping vessels are specifically designed to carry all kinds of dry bulk goods and it consists of many hatchways and a single running deck.

Liquid Bulk Goods

The liquid bulk goods consist of any free-flowing liquid materials: chemicals like gasoline and consumables like milk or juice. The liquid bulk goods are transported using specialized tanks. These customized tanks are filed via pumping stations or pipelines at ports.

What factors affect the bulk cargo shipments rates?

The cost of bulk cargo shipping in India depends upon numerous factors. But the following factors shippers consider while shipping bulk cargo.

Size and Weight of cargo

Shipping Inventory Distance

Dimensional weight

Shipping or freight class

Bulk Shipping by LCM projects

LCM projects offer the best bulk shipping solutions as per the client's requirements. We have helped many clients to move their goods around the world every day. We offer the bulk shipping solutions at the most favorable cost while considering details of volume.

Before offering the solution, the LCM project analysis the business data and then will help you to decide on the suitable bulk shipping solution.

If you want to know more about our bulk shipping solutions, get in touch with us.