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<\/a>Robert started to educate me on all the different types of bulk carriers, such as the handy size bulkers which are used mainly for smaller ports\/rivers.<\/p>\nPanamax bulkers are appropriately named as they are the largest bulk carriers able to transit the Panama Canal, whereas the cape-size trade via the Cape of Good Hope. In the tanker trade, Suezmax tankers are the largest size that can go through the Suez canal.<\/p>\n
He then told me about the very large ore carriers that Vale built which are called Valemax. He showed me a picture of one which is 400,000 dwt and it would make the Saga Andorinha look like a sunfish!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Day 13: Thursday Robert started to educate me on all the different types of bulk carriers, such as the handy size bulkers which are used mainly for smaller ports\/rivers. Panamax bulkers are appropriately named as they are the largest bulk carriers able to transit the Panama Canal, whereas the cape-size trade via the Cape of … Continue reading Journal at Sea: Day 13<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[63,60,61,62,64,65,59],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-essay","tag-abroad","tag-journal-at-sea","tag-m-v-saga-andorinha","tag-student-experience","tag-summer-vacation","tag-travel","tag-wilder-denholm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Robert started to educate me on all the different types of bulk carriers, such as the handy size bulkers which are used mainly for smaller ports\/rivers.<\/p>\n