Ships are divided into various types depending on their

nature of service.

1. Cargo Ships (Bulk carriers, general cargo carriers,

container vessels, oil tankers, chemical tankers, Product

tankers, gas carriers, Ro-Ro ships). Depending on their

sizes they are again classified as handymax, panamax,

suezmax, afromax, vlcc, ulcc, vloc, vlgc, etc.

2. Passenger Ships

3. Serivce ships, such as cable laying submarines, off shore

supply vessels, dp vessels etc

4. Protection such as war ships, Navy submarines etc.