Bulk carriers carry three billion tonnes of cargo every year and are indispensable to world trade. Yet the enormous growth of the bulk carrier fleet has been accompanied by a frightening toll of ships lost. This book looks at the development of and the ships and companies involved in the most anonymous sector of transport - but perhaps the most essential. Author : Nick TollertonHardback : 192 pagesSKU : P12705About the AuthorNick Tollerton is a New Zealand newspaper sports editor and football, rugby and yachting writer.He has had a lifelong interest in ships and the sea and contributed widely as a writer and photographer to nautical publications and websites in New Zealand, Britain and other countries. He's become increasingly interested over the years in the humble and anonymous bulk carriers which are so important to the trade of countries like New Zealand.
