bulk carrier

English

Noun

bulk carrier (plural bulk carriers)

1. (nautical) Any ocean-going cargo vessel (merchant ship) designed to carry unpackaged bulk cargo, such as grains, coal, ore, steel coils and cement, in its holds.

   Synonym: bulker

   • 2022 November 16, Nigel Harris, “Endless news... little context”, in RAIL, number 970, page 3:

     Otherwise, overseas coking coal will be moved to the UK by bulk ocean carrier, which are among the filthiest polluting objects on the face of the Earth we seek to protect.

Translations

ocean-going cargo vessel (merchant ship)

• Esperanto: ŝutvara ŝipo
• Finnish: bulkkialus, irtolastialus
• French: vraquier (fr) m, vracquier m, transporteur de vrac m
• German: Massengutfrachter m, Massengutschiff n, Bulkcarrier m, Bulker m, Bulkschiff n, Schüttgutfrachter m
• Hebrew: אֳנִיַת תִּפְזֹרֶת (he) f (oniyát tifsóret), אֳנִיַת צֹבֶר (he) f (oniyát tsóver)
• Italian: portarinfuse f
• Latvian: balkeris (lv) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tørrlasteskip n, bulkskip n

  Nynorsk: tørrlasteskip n, bulkskip n

• Russian: сухогру́з (ru) m (suxogrúz) (dry-cargo ship), ба́лкер (ru) m (bálker), нава́лочник m (naváločnik)
• Swedish: bulklastfartyg n, bulkfartyg n