Today it is usually steel
The number of stops a cargo ship will make depends on how much cargo the ship has and how many places it has to deliver cargo.
It is called a Container ship!
It is a container ship.
Container ship.
How much rice a cargo ship can carry varies with the size of the ship. The larger ships can carry up to 10,000 20 foot cargo containers filled with rice.
7 foot cargo ship probaby dosent weigh over 5000 lbs.
The cargo was packed tighly into the hold of the ship.
Approx. $9.6 Million
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If a steel ship were not hollow, it would be much heavier and have a higher overall density. This would make it more difficult for the ship to float and it would likely sink. Hollow spaces in a ship contribute to buoyancy and help the vessel stay afloat by displacing water equal to its weight.