CHAPTER 11I. 
CARGO: VARIETIES AND CHARACTERISTICS. 
CLASSIFICATION. 
CARGO is the generic, comprehensive term applied to that 
section of merchandise, whether natural produce or manu- 
factured articles, which is transported overseas. The 
alternative term, freight, is also used, but it is applied in 
a much wider sense, and covers goods transported by rail 
as well as by water. 
Cargo 1s difficult of classification within moderate limits, 
and an exhaustive list would occupy an entire volume. 
A very succinct, and admittedly quite imperfect, general- 
sation of the more important items included within the 
term, so as to afford an idea of its wide comprehensiveness, 
would be :— 
Foodstuffs :(— 
Grain (Wheat, Oats, Bar- Live Stock (Cattle, Poultry, 
ley, etc.). etc.). 
Flour and Meal. Refrigerated Meat. 
Fruit and Vegetables. Dairy Produce. 
Tea, Coffee, Sugar. Provisions and Canned Goods. 
Rice, Sago, etc. Spices. 
Fuel and Ore: — 
Coal. 
Coke. 
Minerals. 
Anthracite. 
Oil. 
Slag.