A commercial vessel is defined by the United States Coast Guard as any vessel (i. e. boat or ship) engaged in commercial trade or that carries passengers for hire. Trade is the willing exchange of goods, services, or both Trade is also called Commerce. This would exclude pleasure craft that do not carry passengers for hire or warships. A warship is a Ship that is built and primarily intended for Combat.

Commercial vessels come in a myriad of sizes and shapes from twenty-foot inflatable dive boats in Hawaii, to 5,000 passenger casino vessels on the Mississippi River, to 1,000 foot oil tankers and container ships at major ports, to a passenger carrying submarine in the U.S. Virgin Islands [1]. A dive boat is a Boat that Scuba divers use to reach a diving site which they could not reach by swimming from land A riverboat casino is a type of Casino found in several areas of the United States which use a Riverboat as a casino Container ships are Cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size containers in a technique called Containerization. A submarine is a Watercraft that can operate independently below water as distinct from a Submersible that has only limited underwater capability The United States Virgin Islands is a group of Islands in the Caribbean that are an Insular area of the United States.

Some examples of commercial vessels:

• Barges
• Tugboats
• Semi-submersible Platforms
• Tankers
• Cargo vessels
• Research vessels
• Platform supply vessels
• Passenger vessels

BARGE, the Big August RecGambling Excursion is a yearly convention held in Las Vegas during the first weekend of August TUGboat (ISSN 0896-3207 is a journal published three times per year by the TeX Users Group. A Semi-submersible platform or rig, is a mobile structure used for drilling for Oil and Natural gas in offshore environments A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of Ship or vessel that carries Cargo, goods and materials from one port to another A research vessel (R/V is a Ship designed and equipped to carry out Research at Sea. A passenger ship is a Ship whose primary function is to carry passengers

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