Importance Of Sea Trade

The cheapest, most efficient and most common way companies and countries around the world trade their goods internationally regionally and locally is through sea trade. No one country has all the resources or manufactured goods within its country to function efficiently and effectively hence the reason for international trade. International trade is the give-and-take of goods and services between countries around the globe. World seaborne trade accounts for between 92 to 95 % of total world trade. International trade generates economic growth, which in turn creates international trade. Sea trade can be classified as bulk cargo, general cargo (liner) or specialized parcels depending on the commodity of the cargo, parcel size, function and/or

The principle is ‘one ship, one cargo’, though we cannot be too rigid about this. Several different bulk cargoes may be carried in a single ship, each occupying a separate hold or possibly even part of a hold in a traditional ‘tramping operation’, though this is less common than it used to be. A shipper with bulk cargo to transport can approach the task in several different ways, depending on the cargo itself and on the nature of the commercial operation—his choices range from total involvement by owning his own ships to handing the entire job over to a specialist bulk shipper. There are two main types of bulk cargo liquid bulk and dry

Another specialized ship is the livestock carrier. Livestock carriers are those ships, which specialise exclusively in the transportation of large numbers of live animals together with their requirements for the voyage (food, water, sawdust bedding, and medication). Voyages on livestock carriers generally last from three days to three to four weeks. Subject to appropriate regulation, live animals may be transported as part of the cargo on various classes of ship. That particular method of transportation is more common on short sea crossings and usually involves relatively small numbers of animals.
Short sea shipping provides transport within regions. It distributes cargo delivered to regional centres such as Hong Kong or Rotterdam by deep sea vessels, and provides a port-to-port service, often in direct competition with land based transport such as rail. This is a very different business from deep sea shipping. The ships are generally smaller than their counterparts in the deep sea trades ranging in size from 400 dwt to 6,000 dwt, though there are no firm rules. Designs place much emphasis on cargo