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A barge is a large sized boat having a flat bottom and normally it does not have any propelling mechanism of its own (sometimes it may have it) so is towed by other machine propelled boats or tugs.

A ship is having general used: for transporting, shipping, etc. It also has many kind of size and capacity

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