List of bulk carriers

Last updated December 27, 2024

This is a list of bulk carriers , both those in service and those which have ceased to operate. Bulk carriers are a type of cargo ship that transports unpackaged bulk cargo. For ships that have sailed under multiple names, their most recent name is used and former names are listed in the Notes section.

Bulk carriers

Name	Type	Country	Owner	Year built	Tonnage	Notes	Status
Adriatica		Moldova	Interglobal Shipping 3001	1981		Formerly Marvel K	Sank in the Mediterranean on 12 December 2010^[1]
Antenor		United Kingdom	Alfred Holt and Company	1972	16,128		Scrapped in Chittagong in 2001^[2]
Apollo Sea		China	CP Ships	1973	69,904	Caused a major oil spill^[3]	Sank off Cape Town in June 1994^[3]
Banglar Samriddhi	LR-class	Bangladesh	Bangladesh Shipping Corporation	2018	25,818	Damaged during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine ^[4]	Abandoned in Ukraine^[5]
Birgo		Norway	Sameiet Birgo	1967	880		Scuttled for insurance fraud in July 1978^[6]
Danica White		Denmark	Partrederiet Invest Vi	1985	997	Hijacked by Somali pirates in June 2007^[7]
Delight	Grain carrier	Hong Kong	Starry Shine International	1985		Hijacked by Somali pirates in November 2008^[8]	Scrapped
Federal Rideau		Marshall Islands	Fednav	2000	20,659		In operation
Kuzma Minin		Russia	Murmansk Shipping Company	1980			Scrapped 3 June 2020^[9]
Matros Pozynich		Russia	Wakoh Panama SA	2010	17,025	Previously Shunwa, Tramontana	In operation
Mount Norefjell	Newcastlemax	Liberia	Himalaya Shipping	2022	210,000		In operation
Nunavik		Marshall Islands	Fednav	2012	22,622		In operation
Tundra		Cyprus	Navarone SA	2009	30,930		In operation
Umiak I		Canada	Fednav	2006	22,462		In operation
U-Sea Saskatchewan		Canada	Seavance Shipping	2010	34,795		In operation
Yasa Jupiter		Turkey	Mirror Ventures S.A.	2019	34,508	Damaged during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine ^[10]	In operation
Zhibek Zholy		Russia	KTZ Express JSC	2016	5,686		In operation

Panamax

Name	Type	Country	Owner	Year built	Tonnage	Notes	Status
CSL Tecumseh	Trillium-class	Bahamas	Canada Steamship Lines	2012	43,691		In operation
Namura Queen		Japan	Nissen Kaiun	2020	47,146	Damaged during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine ^[11]	In operation
U-Sea Colonsay		Canada	Seavance Shipping	2011	34,778		In operation

Lake freighters

Name	Country	Owner	Year built	Tonnage	Notes	Status
Algogulf	Canada	Algoma Central	1961	17,592	Formerly J.N. McWatters, Scott Misener	Scrapped at Port Colborne in 2002
Algorail	Canada	Algoma Central	1967	16,157		Scrapped at Port Colborne in 2018
Algolake	Canada	Algoma Central	1977	22,851		Sold for scrapping 2018
Algosoo	Canada	Algoma Central	1975	21,716		Scrapped at Port Colborne in 2016
Algosteel	Canada	Algoma Central	1966	17,955	Formerly A.S. Glossbrenner, Algogulf	Scrapped in Turkey in 2018^[12]
Algoma Buffalo	Canada	Algoma Central	1978	11,619	Formerly Buffalo	In operation
Algoma Compass	Canada	Algoma Central	1973	18,639	Formerly Roger M.Kyes, Adam E. Cornelius	In operation
Algoma Equinox	Canada	Algoma Central	2012	23,895		In operation
Algoma Mariner	Canada	Algoma Central	2011	24,535		In operation
Algoma Progress	Canada	Algoma Central	1968	21,436	Formerly Canadian Progress	Broken up 2014
Arthur M. Anderson	United States	The Great lakes Fleet	1952	26,525		In operation
American Century	United States	American Steamship Company	1981	35,923	Formerly Columbia Star	In operation
American Courage	United States	Grand River Navigation	1978	11,688	Formerly Fred R. White Jr	In operation
American Integrity	United States	American Steamship Company	1978	35,652	Formerly Lewis Wilson Foy, Oglebay Norton	In operation
American Mariner	United States	Grand River Navigation	1979	15,396		In operation
Argus	United States	Interlake Steamship Company	1905	4,707	Formerly Lewis Woodruff	Sank in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913
Appomattox	United States	Boston Coal Dock & Wharf Company	1896	2,643		Ran aground and sank on November 2, 1905
Augustus B. Wolvin	United States	Labrador Steamship Company	1904	6,585		Scrapped in Santander, Spain in 1967
Baie Comeu	Canada	Canadian Steamship Line	2013	24,430		In operation
Baie St Paul	Canada	Canadian Steamship Line	2012	24,430		In operation
Burns Harbor	United States	American Steamship Company	1980	35,652		In operation
Carl D. Bradley	United States	U.S. Steel	1927	10,028		Sank in a storm on November 18, 1958
Cedarville	United States	U.S. Steel	1927	8,575	Formerly A.F. Harvey	Sank after a collision on May 7, 1965
Charles S. Price	United States	Interlake Steamship Company	1910	6,322		Sank in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913
Chester A. Congdon	United States	Continental Steamship Company	1907	6,530	Formerly Salt Lake City	Ran aground and sank November 5, 1918
CSL Tadoussac	Canada	Canadian Steamship Line	1969	20,634		In operation
D. R. Hanna	United States	Pioneer Steamship Company	1906	7,023		Rammed by the steamer Quincy A. Shaw on May 16, 1919.
Daniel J. Morrell	United States	Bethlehem Transportation Company	1906	7,239		Sank in a storm on November 29, 1966
D.G. Kerr	United States	Provident Steamship Company	1903			Sank on way to be scrapped in 1960^[13]
Edward L. Ryerson	United States	Inland Steamship management	1960	12,170		Laid up in Superior Wisconsin since 2009
*Edmund Fitzgerald*	United States	Columbia Transportation Division	1958	13,632		Sank on November 10, 1975
Edwin H. Gott	United States	The Great Lakes Fleet	1979	35,592		In operation
Emperor	Canada	Canada Steamship Lines	1911	7,031		Ran aground and sank at Isle Royale on June 4, 1947.
Henry B. Smith	United States	Acme Transit Company	1906	6,631		Sank in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913
*Henry Steinbrenner*	United States	Kinsman Transit Co.	1901			Sank on May 11, 1953.
Hesper	United States	Ship Owners Dry Dock Company	1890	1,540		Sank on May 4, 1905
H Lee. White	United States	Grand River Navigation	1974	14,449		In operation
Hydrus	United States	Interlake Steamship Company	1903	4,713	Formerly R.E. Schuck	Sank in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913
Indiana Harbor	United States	American Steamship Company	1979	35,923		In operation
Isaac M. Scott	United States	Virginia Steamship Co.	1909	6,372		Sank in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913
James Carruthers	Canada	St. Lawrence & Chicago Steam and Navigation Company	1913	7,862		Sank in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913
James R. Barker	United States	Interlake Steamship Company	1976	34,728		In operation
John A. McGeen	United States	Hutchinson & Company	1908	5,100		Sank in Great Lakes storm of 1913
John J. Boland	United States	Grand River Navigation	1973	13,862	Formerly Charles E. Wilson	In operation
Kaye E. Barker	United States	Interlake Steamship Company	1952	11,726	Formerly Edward B Greene,Benson Ford (II)	In operation
Lafayette	United States	Pittsburgh Steamship Company	1900	5,113		Sank in the Mataafa Storm.
Leafield	Canada	Strand Stepway Company	1892	1,452		Sank in the Great Lakes storm of 1913
Lee A. Tregurtha	United States	Interlake Steamship Company	1942	14,671	Formerly USS Chiwawa, Walter A. Sterling, William Clay Ford. originally built as a US Navy tanker	In operation
Louisiana	United States		1887			Ran aground and burned in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913.
Mark W. Barker	United States	Interlake Steamship Company	2022	26,000		In Operation
Mesabi Miner	United States	Interlake Steamship Company	1977	34,729		In operation
Mississagi	Canada	Lower Lakes Towing	1943	15,336	Formerly Hill Annex, George A. Sloan	Scrapped at Sault Ste Marie in 2021
Michipicoten	Canada	Lower Lakes Towing	1952	15,336	Formerly Elton Hoyt II	In operation
Parkdale	United Kingdom	Redwood Enterprises Ltd	1916		Formerly Sir Trevor Dawson, Charles L. Hutchinson, Gene C. Hutchinson	Scrapped in Cartagena, Spain in 1980
Paul R. Tregurtha	United States	Interlake Steamship Company	1981	36,360	Formerly Willam J. Delancey largest lake freighter ever built	In operation
R. J. Hackett	United States	Vulcan Transportation Company	1869	1,129	First lake freighter	Burned and sank on November 12, 1905
Radcliffe R. Latimer	Canada	Algoma Central	1978	22,465	Formerly Algobay, Atlantic Trader	In operation
Regina	Canada	Canadian Steamship Lines	1907	1,956		Sank in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913
Roger Blough	United States	The Great Lakes fleet	1972	22,041		Laid up in sturgeon Bay Wisconsin after a fire in 2021
Saginaw	Canada	Lower Lakes Towing	1953	12,557	Formerly John J. Boland	In operation
Sam Laud	United States	Grand River Navigation	1973	11,619		In operation
Scotiadoc	Canada	Paterson Steamships, Ltd	1904	4,432	Formerly Martin Mullen	Sank after being rammed by the freighter Burlington in a storm on June 20, 1953.
Tim S. Dool	Canada	Algoma Central	1967	18,845	Formerly Senneville, Algoville	In operation
Thunder bay	Canada	Canadian Steamship Line	2013	24,300		In operation
Walter J. McCarthy Jr	United States	American Steamship Company	1977	35,923		In operation
Wexford	France	Western Steamship Company	1888	2,077		Sank in the Great Lakes storm of 1913
William B. Davock	United States	Vulcan Steamship Company	1907	4,468		Foundered on Lake Michigan on November 11, 1940
William C. Moreland	United States	Interstate Steamship Company	1910	7,514	The stern of the Moreland was salvaged and reused as the stern of the Sir Trevor Dawson.	Ran aground and sank on Sawtooth Reef October 18, 1910
Whitefish bay	Canada	Canadian Steamship Line	2012	24,300		In operation

Ore-bulk-oil carriers

Ore-bulk-oil carriers (OBO)

Name	Type	Country	Owner	Year built	Tonnage	Notes	Status
Arctic		Canada	Fednav	1978	19,420	Has a special bow for ice breaking	Scrapped at Aliaga in April 2021
Berge Istra		Liberia	Sig.ö Bergesen d.y.	1972			Disappeared in the Pacific on 30 December 1975^[14]
Berge Vanga		Liberia	Sig.ö Bergesen d.y.	1974	115,426		Disappeared in the South Atlantic on 29 October 1979^[14]
Derbyshire	Bridge-class	United Kingdom	Bibby Line	1976	91,655	Previously Liverpool Bridge	Lost with all hands on 9 September 1980 during Typhoon Orchid ^[15]
Kowloon Bridge	Bridge-class	Hong Kong	Helinger	1972	89,438	Previously English Bridge	Wrecked off Ireland in December 1986^[16]

Very large ore carriers

Very large ore carriers (VLOC)

Name	Type	Country	Owner	Year built	Tonnage	Notes	Status
Berge Fjord			BW Fleet Management	1985	159,534	Previously Docefjord	Scrapped 18 February 2017
Berge Stahl	Valemax	Comoros	Berge Bulk	1986	175,720	Largest bulk carrier in the world until 2011^[17]	Scrapped at Gadani in July 2020
Ore Brasil	Valemax	Singapore	Vale Shipping Holding Pte. Ltd.	2011	198,980	Previously Vale Brasil	In operation
Stellar Daisy		South Korea	VP-14 Shipping Inc	1993	148,431	Largest ship to be lost at sea^[18]	Sank in the South Atlantic on 31 March 2017^[18]
Vale Rio de Janeiro	Valemax	Singapore	Vale Shipping Holding Pte. Ltd.	2011	198,980		In operation

Strategic sealift bulk carriers

Strategic sealift ships are cargo ships operated by the United States Navy's Military Sealift Command. Those ships which are dry cargo/ammunition ships (T-AKE and T-AK) and considered bulk carriers are listed here.

Name	Hull number	Class	Year built	Tonnage	Status
USNS Lewis and Clark	T-AKE-1	Lewis and Clark	2005	41,000	In operation
USNS Sacagawea	T-AKE-2	Lewis and Clark	2006	40,298	In operation
USNS Alan Shepard	T-AKE-3	Lewis and Clark	2006	40,298	In operation
USNS Richard E. Byrd	T-AKE-4	Lewis and Clark	2007	40,298	In operation
USNS Robert E. Peary	T-AKE-5	Lewis and Clark	2007	40,298	In operation
USNS Amelia Earhart	T-AKE-6	Lewis and Clark	2008	40,298	In operation
USNS Carl Brashear	T-AKE-7	Lewis and Clark	2008	40,298	In operation
USNS Wally Schirra	T-AKE-8	Lewis and Clark	2009	40,298	In operation
USNS Matthew Perry	T-AKE-9	Lewis and Clark	2009	40,298	In operation
USNS Charles Drew	T-AKE-10	Lewis and Clark	2010	40,298	In operation
USNS Washington Chambers	T-AKE-11	Lewis and Clark	2010	40,298	In operation
USNS William McLean	T-AKE-12	Lewis and Clark	2011	40,298	In operation
USNS Medgar Evers	T-AKE-13	Lewis and Clark	2011	40,298	In operation
USNS Cesar Chavez	T-AKE-14	Lewis and Clark	2012	40,298	In operation

Related Research Articles

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MS Berge Stahl was a bulk carrier. Until the delivery of MS Vale Brasil in 2011 she was the longest and largest iron ore carrier in the world. She was registered in Comoros. Before that, she was registered in Douglas, Isle of Man, Stavanger, Norway as well as in Monrovia, Liberia.

MV Iran Deyanat is an Iranian ship that was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden by 40 pirates with Kalashnikovs and RPGs on August 21, 2008. The crew of the ship numbered 29: a Pakistani captain, 14 Iranians including an engineer, 3 Indians, 2 Filipinos, and 10 Croatians. The ship was freed on October 10, and the crew was unharmed. The ship went underway bound to Oman and then to its final destination at Rotterdam.

MV Delight is a Hong Kong-flagged grain carrier. It was attacked and hijacked in the Gulf of Aden in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Yemen in the Horn of Africa by Somali pirates on 18 November 2008 at 2 p.m. The Delight, chartered by the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, was carrying a cargo of 36,000 tonnes of wheat, and was heading for Iran's Bandar Abbas port. The 25 crew members were from India (7), Pakistan (2), Philippines (7), Iran (7), Ghana (2). The ship was released on 10 January 2009.

MV Yasa Neslihan is a bulk cargo ship owned and operated by the Istanbul based Turkish company YA-SA Denizcilik A.Ş., a subsidiary of YA-SA Holding A.Ş., sailing under a Marshall Islands flag of convenience. She joined company's fleet on November 14, 2005.

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MS Ore Brasil, previously known as Vale Brasil, is a very large ore carrier owned by the Brazilian mining company Vale. She is the first of seven 400,000-ton very large ore carriers (VLOC) ordered by Vale from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in South Korea and twelve from Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy Industries in China, which are designed to carry iron ore from Brazil to Asia along the Cape route around South Africa. While close to the specifications of Chinamax, these ships are generally referred to as Valemax vessels by Vale. They are the largest bulk carriers ever built.

Valemax ships are a fleet of very large ore carriers (VLOC) owned or chartered by the Brazilian mining company Vale S.A. to carry iron ore from Brazil to European and Asian ports. With a capacity ranging from 380,000 to 400,000 tons deadweight, the vessels meet the Chinamax standard of ship measurements for limits on draft and beam. Valemax ships are the largest bulk carriers ever constructed, when measuring deadweight tonnage or length overall, and are amongst the longest ships of any type currently in service.

MV Vale Rio de Janeiro, owned by the Brazilian mining company Vale, is one of the world's largest very large ore carriers and a sister ship of Vale Brasil. Designed to carry iron ore from Brazil to Asia along the Cape route around South Africa, she is the second of seven 400,000-tonne very large ore carriers (VLOC) ordered by Vale from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in South Korea and twelve from Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy Industries in China. While close to the specifications of Chinamax, these ships are generally referred to as Valemax vessels by Vale.

MS Nordic Orion is a Danish bulk carrier registered in Panama City. A coal and ore carrier, Nordic Orion has a capacity of 75,603 tonnes deadweight (DWT). It was built in 2011 by Oshima Shipbuilding. Nordic Orion has an ice-strengthened hull, and it is notable for being the first large sea freighter to transit the Arctic Northwest Passage. It is owned and operated by Nordic Bulk Carriers.

Nunavik is an icebreaking bulk carrier owned and operated by the Canadian shipping company Fednav. She is used to transport copper and nickel from the Nunavik Nickel Project, making 7–8 round trips per year.

MV Banglar Samriddhi is a Bangladeshi bulk carrier built in 2018 which was struck by a missile in the Black Sea during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

MV Abdullah, originally named MV Golden Hawk, is a Bangladeshi bulk carrier.

2024 in piracy included 33 reports of maritime piracy and armed robbery against ships to the International Maritime Bureau during the first quarter of the year. Incidents that happend in 2023 and soon is reported to happen 2026 Crew continued to suffer violence, with 35 seafarers taken hostage, nine kidnapped, and one of the most important casualties threatened during the first three months of the year.

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[1] "Moldovan Ship Sinks In Storm, Ukrainian Crew Safe". Radio Free Europe. 12 December 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2018.

[2] "ANTENOR – IMO 7224332". shipspotting.com. 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2012.

[Underhill-3] 1 2 Underhill, L. G. (2000-07-11). "Five years of monitoring African Penguins after the Apollo Sea oil spill: a success story made possible by ringing". Penguin Watch. Archived from the original on 2015-05-12. Retrieved 2014-08-17.

[:0-4] Paul, Ruma; Saul, Jonathan (18 March 2022). "Bangladesh seeks $22.4 mln after missile hits ship in Ukraine". Reuters. Retrieved 18 March 2022.

[5] Report, Star Digital (2022-03-04). "Bangladesh abandons Banglar Samriddhi after crew evacuated". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-07-07.

[6] Bakkevig, Erik (2003). Skipsforlis gjennom tidene – fra Skudeneshavn til Bømlahuk. ISBN 82-303-0098-4.

[DMA-7] "DANICA WHITE Pirate attack and hijacking on 1 June 2007" (PDF). Danish Maritime Authority. 16 November 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2014.

[telegraph-8] "Pirates hijack Hong Kong cargo ship". telegraph.co.uk. 18 November 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-19.

[9] "Kuzma Minin (7721263)" . Miramar Ship Index . Retrieved 2 July 2022.

[10] "Carriers urged to avoid the Black Sea as Turkish bulker gets hit off Odessa". Splash247. 2022-02-25. Retrieved 2022-04-19.

[:02-11] Payne, Julia (25 February 2022). "Cargo ship Namura Queen hit by rocket off Ukraine – local agent". Reuters . Archived from the original on 25 February 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2022.

[miramar-12] "A.S.Glossbrenner (6613299)" . Miramar Ship Index . Retrieved 10 March 2019.

[13] Berry, Sterling. "Kerr, D.G. 1". Great Lakes vessel history. Archived from the original on 2022-10-01. Retrieved 2020-01-03.

[:1-14] 1 2 Meland, Astrid (3 January 2006). "Skipet som forsvant" [The ship that disappeared]. Dagbladet (in Norwegian). Retrieved 1 June 2014.

[list-15] "List of websites and links of the enquiries of Derbyshire sinking". www.c4tx.org. Retrieved 27 July 2017.^{[ dead link ‍]}

[16] "Bibby Line". The Ships List. Archived from the original on 4 February 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2012.

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