Marine+Transportation

Learn about dry cargo ships (containers, bulk carriers, barges, reefer ships, and RORO ships) and liquid carriers (oil, chemical and LNG tankers,) by visiting the full-text databases and web sites below. Questions? Please speak with your teacher, or stop by the IMC - we'll be happy to assist you.

Read "Shipping on the Oceans", by Adrienne Lerner, from the **//UXL Encyclopedia of Water Science//**. (This is just one of many online full-text encyclopedias available in the Gale Virtual Reference Library.)

Read "Ships and Shipping", a terrific overview article from the **//Encyclopedia Britannica//**, to learn about the history of shipping, as well as about tankers, carriers, passenger ships and pleasure crafts. Also included is information about the stability and strength, construction, launching and testing of ships. This article also features a nice illustration of the "below-deck arrangement of a typical tanker."

This terrific database, from the MA State Library System, features the **//Gale Encyclopedia of Science//**, //**Chemical Elements**//, **//Science in Dispute//**, and //**Macmillan Science Library**//, and many others, as well as regularly updated video, audio and podcast content, and full-text newspaper, magazine and journal articles.

**Dry Cargo Ships** [|What is a container ship?] from BrightHub.com

[|Container ship], from [|Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia] (Learn about different kinds of dry cargo ships and tankers (which transport liquids) by reading [|Merchant vessel]. You may also be interested in the overview article, [|Ship transport], which features great images of several kinds of cargo ships and tankers.)

[|Container Ship Design], from the World Shipping Council (Be sure to check out this site's helpful [|Glossary of Industry Terms], too.)

[|"Maersk Orders World's Greenest Container Ship"], from GreenBiz.com

[|Ship Photo Albums]

[|Refrigerated Cargo Ships/Reefers], from GlobalSecurity.org

[|National Ocean Service]

[|Transport vessels], from Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

[|How Oil Tankers Work], from HowStuffWorks.com

[|Directory of Carriers], from the Jacksonville (FL) Port Authority