English
Noun
bulk carrier (plural bulk carriers)
- (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: ба́лкер (ru) m (bálker), сухогру́з (ru) m (suxogrúz) (general term for a dry cargo ship), нава́лочник m (naváločnik)
- Swedish: bulklastfartyg n, bulkfartyg n
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