In such a new environment, the precepts of international freight transportation are being redefined,
both for bulk and for break-bulk cargo. The former comprises homogeneous materials
without packaging (ores, coal, grain, raw sugar, cement, crude oil and oil products, etc.) usually
for a single consignee and destination, while the latter, often known as general cargo, consists of
an almost infinite variety of freight, usually in small consignments for numerous consignees and
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packaged in a variety of bags, bales, boxes, crates and drums of diverse shape and size. However,
containers account for the majority of the break-bulk cargo being carried.