Dry Bulker Business



The dry bulk carrier ‘TENRO MARU’ is docked at a port, with its large hull and cranes visible against a backdrop of hills and a clear sky, ready for cargo operations.

Tenro Maru

Dry Bulker Business
Energy Business
Product Transport Business

Activity in Africa

MOL Drybulk Ltd. transports steel Products such as Coils which is mainly used for Building materials by Handysize, Supramax and Ultramax size bulk carriers from Japan to the East African ports of Mombasa (Kenyan) and Dar es Salaam (Tanzanian), and the Southern African ports of Nacala (Mozambique) and Durban (South African).

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Outline of services

Numerous large metal coils are neatly stacked and secured in rows, illustrating the cargo load of steel products within a ship’s hold, ready for transport.

Large Metal Coils

There are various sizes and types of dry bulkers according to the volume of cargo to be transported and facilities at ports of call.

Capesize bulkers, the largest dry bulkers in service, can transport various cargoes including iron ore and coal. They got the name "Capesize" because they could not pass through the Panama Canal before its expansion in 2016 and had to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via the Cape of Good Hope. Among Capesize vessels, the largest class is called very large ore carriers (VLOCs). Overall, these ships are massive, designed to maximize their capacity to load and transport iron ore, which has a high specific gravity, but the holds are narrow to boost the efficiency of loading and discharging.

Panamax bulkers are the largest ships capable of transiting the pre-expansion Panama Canal. They measure up to 900ft (about 274m) long and 106ft (about 32m) wide. They are well suited to transport grain shipped from ports on the Gulf of Mexico to Asia through the Panama Canal, as do Handymax bulkers.

Handymax and Handysize bulkers are equipped with loading/unloading equipment, allowing them to load and discharge cargo at ports that do not have their own facilities. The "Handy" in their names refers to the convenience of being able to load and unload at virtually any port. These bulkers transport a variety of dry bulk cargoes such as grain, minor metals, and steel products, in smaller lots than Capesize and Panamax bulkers.The MOL Group also operates other various specialized bulkers such as woodchip carriers, cement carriers, and heavyweight product carriers.