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Although there is no official definition in terms of exact tonnages, Handysize most usually refers to a dry bulk vessel
Bulk carrier

A bulk carrier, bulk freighter, or bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo, such as grains, coal, ore, and cement in its cargo holds....
 (or, less commonly, to a product tanker
Tanker (ship)

A tank ship or tankship, often referred to as a tanker is a ship designed to transport liquids in Bulk liquids. Major types of tankship include the oil tanker, the chemical tanker, and the liquefied natural gas carrier....
) with deadweight
Deadweight

The term deadweight may refer to:*The economics concept deadweight loss.*Deadweight tonnage is an expression of a ship's carrying capacity, including the weight of the crew, passengers, cargo, fuel, ballast, drinking water, and stores....
 of about 15,000–35,000 tons. Above this size are Handymax
Handymax

Handymax or Supramax is a naval architecture term for a bulk carrier, typically between 35,000 and .A handymax ship is typically 150-200 meters in length, though certain bulk terminal restrictions, such as those in Japan, mean that many handymax ships are just under 190 meters in overall length....
 bulkers (typically 35,000 - 58,000 tons deadweight); there is no well-defined or widely accepted size sector below 15,000 tons.

Handysize is numerically the most common size of bulk carrier, with nearly 2000 units in service totalling about 43 million tons.






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Although there is no official definition in terms of exact tonnages, Handysize most usually refers to a dry bulk vessel
Bulk carrier

A bulk carrier, bulk freighter, or bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo, such as grains, coal, ore, and cement in its cargo holds....
 (or, less commonly, to a product tanker
Tanker (ship)

A tank ship or tankship, often referred to as a tanker is a ship designed to transport liquids in Bulk liquids. Major types of tankship include the oil tanker, the chemical tanker, and the liquefied natural gas carrier....
) with deadweight
Deadweight

The term deadweight may refer to:*The economics concept deadweight loss.*Deadweight tonnage is an expression of a ship's carrying capacity, including the weight of the crew, passengers, cargo, fuel, ballast, drinking water, and stores....
 of about 15,000–35,000 tons. Above this size are Handymax
Handymax

Handymax or Supramax is a naval architecture term for a bulk carrier, typically between 35,000 and .A handymax ship is typically 150-200 meters in length, though certain bulk terminal restrictions, such as those in Japan, mean that many handymax ships are just under 190 meters in overall length....
 bulkers (typically 35,000 - 58,000 tons deadweight); there is no well-defined or widely accepted size sector below 15,000 tons.

Handysize is numerically the most common size of bulk carrier, with nearly 2000 units in service totalling about 43 million tons. Handysize ships are very flexible because their size allows them to enter smaller ports, and in most cases they are 'geared' - i.e. fitted with cranes - which means that they can load and discharge cargoes at ports which lack cranes or other cargo handling systems. Compared to larger bulk carriers, handysizes carry a wider variety of cargo types. These include steel products, grain, metal ores, phosphate, cement, logs, woodchips and other types of so-called 'break bulk cargo
Break bulk cargo

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 shipping containers nor in bulk cargo as with oil or grain....
'.

Handysize bulkers are built mainly by shipyards in Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, the Philippines and India, though a few other countries also have the capacity to build such vessels. The most common industry-standard specification handysize bulker is now about 32,000 mt deadweight on a summer draft
Summer Draft

A naval architecture term for the worst-case loaded draft a ship can have. This draft is corrected for the worst-case seasonal conditions . During the summer months in the northern hemisphere, the water is warmer....
 of about 10.0 metres, and features 5 cargo holds with hydraulically operated hatch covers, with four 30 metric ton cranes for cargo handling. Some handysizes are also fitted with stanchions to enable logs to be loaded in stacks on deck. Such vessels are often referred to as 'handy loggers'.

Despite multiple recent orders for new ships, the handysize sector still has the highest average age profile of the major bulk carrier sectors.

See also

  • Handymax
    Handymax

    Handymax or Supramax is a naval architecture term for a bulk carrier, typically between 35,000 and .A handymax ship is typically 150-200 meters in length, though certain bulk terminal restrictions, such as those in Japan, mean that many handymax ships are just under 190 meters in overall length....
  • Panamax
    Panamax

    "Panamax" ships are of the maximum dimensions that will fit through the canal lock of the Panama Canal. This size is determined by the dimensions of the lock chambers, and the depth of the water in the canal....
  • Suezmax
    Suezmax

    Suezmax is a naval architecture term for the largest ships capable of transiting the Suez Canal fully loaded, and is almost exclusively used in reference to oil tanker....
  • Capesize
    Capesize

    Capesize ships are cargo ships originally too large to transit the Suez Canal . To travel between oceans, such vessels used to have to pass either the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn....