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Sea Vessel Types

Cargo ships are categorized partly by their capacity, partly by their weight, and partly by their dimensions (often with reference to the various canals and canal locks through which they can travel). Some common categories include:

• Small Handy size, carriers of 20,000 long tons deadweight (DWT)-28,000 DWT
• Handy size, carriers of 28,000-40,000 DWT
• Handymax, carriers of 40,000-50,000 DWT
• Seawaymax, the largest size which can traverse the St Lawrence Seaway
• Aframax, oil tankers between 75,000 and 115,000 DWT. This is the largest size defined by the average freight rate assessment (AFRA) scheme.
• Panamax, the largest size which can traverse the Panama Canal (generally: vessels with a width smaller than 32.2 m)
• Suezmax, the largest size which can traverse the Suez Canal
• Malaccamax, the largest size which can traverse the Straits of Malacca
• Capesize, vessels larger than Panamax and Suezmax, which must traverse the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn in order to travel between oceans
• VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier), supertankers between 150,000 and 320,000 DWT.
• ULCC (Ultra Large Crude Carrier), enormous supertankers between 320,000 and 550,000 DWT.

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