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If you were going to take an ocean voyage, you would probably travel on a ship that belongs to some nation's merchant marine. Nonmilitary passenger and cargo ships make up a merchant marine. There are many fewer merchant-marine ships than there used to be because aircraft now carry most long-distance passengers and some freight too.

Many different kinds of ships are used by the merchant marine to transport different types of cargo. Tankers transport liquids, from delicate French wine to crude oil. Container ships carry goods already packed in large boxes or containers. Freighters usually carry dry cargo, such as grain. They sometimes carry a few paying passengers, too. ...

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