6 THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE www.joc.com JULY 2016
COVER STORY
SUDDENLY EVERYONE WANTS to be the breakbulk
and project cargo shipper's new best friend.
Facing weakness in their core markets, con-
tainer and dry bulk carriers are pitching hard
for multipurpose vessels' traditional cargoes.
"It's a buyer's market," said Susan Oatway,
senior breakbulk analyst at Drewry Supply
Chain Advisors, describing the new choices
available to shippers and forwarders.
There's never been a hard-and-fast demar-
cation between breakbulk/project cargo and
other shipping markets. Container, dry bulk
and roll-on, roll-off carriers have handled
breakbulk cargo, including out-of-gauge ship-
ments, for years. Dry bulk ships may carry
grain or other bulk materials in one direction
and steel or other breakbulk cargo the other
way. Container lines move oversize shipments
By Joseph Bonney
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