Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who bulks tobacco, fish, or the like.
- noun Nautical, a person employed to determine the quantity or bulk of goods, so as to fix the amount of freight- or shore-dues to which they are liable.
- noun A beam.
- noun A butcher's stall.
- noun One who sleeps under bulks or benches; a night-walker.
- noun A common strumpet or jilt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical A
bulk dry goods cargo ship . - noun nautical A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.
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Examples
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Are we anticipating that some German or Russian eco-tourism ship or a convience-flag bulker will refuse to conform to the Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Regulations and will have to be coerced with a 57 mm gun?
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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Are we anticipating that some German or Russian eco-tourism ship or a convience-flag bulker will refuse to conform to the Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Regulations and will have to be coerced with a 57 mm gun?
What the Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships (A/OPSs) are all about 2007
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Given the merger agreement with Crude Carriers, along with the acquisition of the Cape Agamemnon the 2010 built Capesize bulker -- on charter to Cosco, the current annual distribution guidance for CPLP of $0.93 remains sustainable.
unknown title 2011
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Pan Ocean Co., South Korea's biggest bulk carrier, and said lower bulker rates will hurt earnings.
Asia Exports Cooling Damps Commodity Shipping Outlook - Bloomberg 2011
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"We think dry bulker rates are close to rebounding after bottoming, while dry bulker futures have already started an across-the-board rebound," Seigo Ando, an analyst at Deutsche Bank AG., wrote in a report dated yesterday.
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They downgraded STX Pan Ocean Co., South Korea's biggest bulk carrier, and said lower bulker rates will hurt earnings.
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For some security, DRYS (bulker side) would be best served by keeping at least a portion of OCR shares (say 25%) of any listing/spin-off until the drybulk sector returns to some stability.
unknown title 2011
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"The ordered cranes are MacGregor GLB cranes and they offer an efficient and reliable cargo handling solution to our customers", says Paul Söderstedt, Sales Manager for bulker cranes at Cargotec.
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The Company sold the 70,349 DWT Panamax bulker M.V. Iguana (built in 1996) for a price of
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The Company sold the 70,349 DWT Panamax bulker M.V. Iguana (built in 1996) for a price of
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