Impact Of Maritime Shipping

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The ocean is one vast highway that’s comprises of battleships, tankers, cruise ships and etc. Maritime Shipping is one of the oldest forms of transportation to ship goods and services across the oceans. The article “The Impacts of Globalization on International Maritime Transport Activity” examine the different kind of impacts from globalization on the maritime industry in the past, present and future. This article was written by James Corbett and James Winebrake for an international meeting to discussing the impacts was published in 2008. Corbett and Winebrake are both Energy and Environment research associates in the United States. The type audiences the authors are trying to persuade is a friendly audience. This article was out to convince …show more content…

Next, toward the end of the introduction paragraph the article gave the overall main points on how globalization cause the maritime industry to change over the past history. In the beginning of the article the authors first discuss the maritime shipping and goods movement. This segment basely outlined to the reader how does the maritime industry operates and how goods travel to point A to point B. The next part in the article is Global economic role of maritime shipping which gave the reader the importance’s detail on how maritime impact country economic. The authors really explain why globalization cause a huge impact on the maritime industry in the section maritime transformations responding to globalization. This section is the main focus of the paper; additionally, the authors gave the reader a lot charts and table to get the point across to the audiences. Lastly, the last part of the article talks about how this change cause big impact on the …show more content…

In figure 1its talking about the different modes of transportation after the cargo had been unload, which was “published in the IMO Study of Greenhouse Gases from Ships” (pg. 5). The two authors used this figure because it came from one of well-known organization in the world called IMO. IMO means International Maritime Organization, which is a group in the UN that regulated all the shipping in the world. By using this figure from the IMO it helps making the paper more knowledgeable. This is ethos because the two authors know that the reader would trust one of the biggest company in the maritime industry. The two author audience is people in their field of studies and want them to accept argument. Therefore, they want to use sources that is reliable credibility in the field. The target audience expectation the author be too well rounded with

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