maritime shipping
Goods by sea
Maritime shipping is the transport of goods and passengers by sea, the backbone of global trade.
Cargo vessels carry everything from oil tankers to container ships stacked with consumer products.
The industry encompasses ports, shipping lanes, fleets, and the logistics of moving freight across oceans: Maritime shipping accounts for ninety percent of world trade.
The adjective maritime emphasizes connection to the sea, distinguishing ocean transport from air, rail, or road freight.
- cargo holdVessel's storage area
- cargo handlingMoving goods onto vehicles
- loading dockRaised platform for freight
- tankerVessel for liquid bulk
- stevedoreShip cargo handler
bill of lading · transshipment · deadweight tonnage · Lloyd's of London · dry dock · anchorage · port of call · quay · freight · breakwater · tugboat · tonnage · port · fleet · berth · sea lane · high seas · open water
- freightcargo, cargo ships, air freight, freight rates, bulk freight
- grain tradegrain market, grain exchange, grain exports, grain prices, grain futures
- oil tradeoil trade, petroleum, barrels, oil imports, oil exports
- oil tankersoil tanker, supertanker, VLCC, tankers, crude carrier
maritime shippingair freight
Goods shipped by aircraft
air cargo · air shipping · rail freight · rail transport · trucking
ship, marine, shipping, navigation, maritime, seafaring, mariner