breakbulk

The Port of New Orleans reported 140,391 total tons of breakbulk cargo during June, a 22% year-over-year increase from June 2020. Breakbulk shipments to the port included steel coils and heavy-lift/project cargo. On June 10, the port discharged 300 steel coils to a barge at Coastal Cargo...

The definition of "breakbulk" forever changed on April 26, 1956, when Malcom McLean's SS Ideal-X, the first commercial container ship, was loaded in Newark, New Jersey, and set sail for Houston. Before containerization, breakbulk referred to everything except dry and liquid bulk. Prior to the SS...