Bulk carriers

The category, explained

Bulk carriers move unpackaged dry cargo — iron ore, coal, grain — in vast hopper-shaped holds, and like tankers they are measured by deadweight. The biggest are ore carriers, because iron ore is dense enough to use every tonne of a giant hull.

The two on this site tell the breed's whole modern story: Berge Stahl, the 364,767-tonne shuttle that only two ports on Earth could receive fully laden, and Vale Brasil, the first of the 400,000-tonne Valemaxes that a mining company ordered to bend the economics of the Brazil–China run.

Every one here

Side profiles are sized by real length overall — longer ships draw bigger.

Ranked by length