Wet cargo

Japanese: wet cargo(英語表記)wetcargo
Wet cargo

…Industrial products are not a single, large-scale product, but consist of a variety of miscellaneous goods, and are classified as sundry cargo in statistics. However, as the energy shift from coal to oil (energy revolution) progressed in the 1960s, crude oil and other petroleum products began to be transported by tanker as wet cargo. Currently, such tanker cargo is mainly transported from the Middle East to countries around the world.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "wet cargo" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…工業製品は大量・単一の商品ではなく,種々雑多な商品からなり,統計上は雑貨sundry cargoとして分類される。ところが1960年代に入って石炭から石油へのエネルギー転換(エネルギー革命)が進むにつれて,原油やその他石油製品が液体貨物wet cargoとしてタンカー(油送船)で輸送されるようになった。現在ではおもに中近東から世界各国に向けて,このようなタンカー・カーゴが輸送されている。…

※「wet cargo」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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