sea trade
Oceanic cargo business
Sea trade is commerce conducted by ship across oceans and waterways.
Before rail and air transport, sea trade was the primary means of moving goods between distant regions, shaping economies and empires.
The term encompasses everything from ancient spice routes to modern container shipping: Sea trade made port cities wealthy.
Also called maritime trade.
- cargo vesselShip for transporting goods
- container shipVessel carrying standardized freight boxes
- cargo holdVessel's storage area
- dockMooring structure at water's edge
- shipSeagoing transport vessel
merchant fleet · maritime law · stevedore · embargoes · global supply chain · freight rates · letter of marque · pilotage · high seas · open water · quay · freighter · tariffs · entrepôt · tanker · shipbuilding · East India Company · routes
- maritime historysailors, ships, seamen, sailing ships, celestial navigation
- maritime tradecontainer ships, cargo ship, shipping routes, seaports, container ship
- maritime studiesseamanship, marine navigation, oceanography, hydrography, maritime safety
- ancient tradeSilk Road, caravan routes, river routes, maritime routes, shipping lanes
- ancient traveltravelers, Silk Road, pilgrims, caravans, horses
- Baltic SeaGulf of Finland, gray seal, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
sea tradeautarky
Complete economic independence
self-sufficiency · economic isolation · subsistence economy · protectionism · trade embargo