Dry Bulk Commodity

If you know what bulk bins are, you’ve seen dry bulk commodities in the flesh. Well, in the grain, so to speak.

Dry bulk commodities are raw materials (like grain, coal, and sugar) that are shipped in giant containers, scandalously unpackaged.

Dry bulk commodities are usually going places—you know, important places, like to global manufacturers. No big deal. There are “major bulks,” which take up around two-thirds of dry bulk commodities, such as grain, goal, and iron ore, and “minor bulks” for smaller shipments of sugar, steel, and cement.

Because dry bulk commodities are "naked," they’re living the dangerous life: one hole poked in the wrong place can wreck a whole parcel. It’s no wonder transportation of dry bulk is so regulated...nobody likes dealing with environmental accidents. If you like living on the edge of life too, you could invest in one of the dry bulk commodities indices, like the Baltic Dry Index.