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dry bulk

American  

noun

  1. a category of cargo stowed in bulk, consisting of grain, cotton, coal, etc.


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But there is optionality on the dry bulk market getting tighter, and then, eventually, a potential exponential increase in freight rates once it hits a tipping point.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

Genco Shipping & Trading’s GNK -2.09%decrease; red down pointing triangle board unanimously rejected a revised takeover proposal from fellow dry bulk shipping company Diana Shipping DSX -5.28%decrease; red down pointing triangle .

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

According to Teodoro, the conflict is less of a systemic demand-and-supply shock than the pandemic, but it represents a persistent and potentially long-lasting disruption affecting all shipping segments — container, dry bulk and oil tanker.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

About a dozen ships are currently trapped in the port, Vice Admiral Peter Gautier told reporters, adding that the foreign-flagged vessels are "dry bulk carriers, car carriers and a number of maritime administration ships".

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2024

I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much of them in sheer dry bulk as there is the rest of me.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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