Bulk cargo

[1] Bulk cargo refers to material in either liquid or granular, particulate (as a mass of relatively small solids) form, such as petroleum/crude oil, grain, coal, or gravel.

This cargo is usually dropped or poured, with a spout or shovel bucket, into a bulk carrier ship's hold, railroad car/railway wagon, or tanker truck/trailer/semi-trailer body.

[2] The Baltic Exchange is based in London and provides a range of indices benchmarking the cost of moving bulk commodities, dry and wet, along popular routes around the seas.

The BDI has been used as a bellwether for the global economy as it can be interpreted as an indicator of an increase or decrease in the amount of raw commodities countries are importing/exporting.

[3] They would include: Liquid bulk cargo includes any cargo carried in closed tanks and poured or pumped into the carrying vessel, such as:

A mini-bulker taking on scrap iron cargo in Brest , France .
Modern tank cars carry all types of liquid and gaseous commodities.
This heap of iron ore pellets will be used in steel production.