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Source: Adapted from UNCTAD, Review of Maritime Transport, various issues. J. Hoffmann (2014) “Who controls the world’s fleet? Trends in the ship owning countries”, Marine Money Geneva Forum. Maritime transport has several economic ramifications since it involves core and ancillary (support) activities. Such an association is often referred to as

Source: Adapted from Clarkson Research. Larger ship capacities require deeper drafts since capacity is a function of weight, and that weight influences buoyancy. Depth requirements are deeper than design drafts because a ship in movement in a harbor usually requires an additional two feet of draft because of hydrodynamic factors (known

Source: All dimensions are in meters. LOA: Length overall. The loads displayed on deck represent maximal possible loads, which would involve a large share of empty containers. The loads are usually 1 to 3 containers less in height. Containerships usually carry fewer containers because of weight restrictions and lack of

Photo: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, 2006. There has been a growth in the consumption of natural gas in the global economy, particularly for power generation. Natural gas is one of the cleanest and most energy-efficient fossil fuels and has a composition of about 95% methane. As the demand for natural gas

Source: Great Lakes & Seaway Shipping Online Stelco Inc., whose Hamilton facilities are shown in this photo, was one the largest steel companies in Canada. It was in operation from 1910 to 2010, when it ceased making steel. It moved each year about 7.5 million tons of coal and ores

Photo: Dr. Theo Notteboom, 2009. Launched in 2006, the Evelyn Maersk is part of the (‘E’) class of containerships with a capacity of around 14,000 TEU. The vessels in this class have 397 meters in length, a width of 56 meters, and a deadweight of 156,907 tons. For this impressive

Photo: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, 2003. As automobile production became an increasingly globalized industry, the need to transport vehicles overseas increased. RO-RO (Roll On – Roll Off) ships suit such a purpose. Vehicles are rolled on the ship’s decks and parked. The deck height can be adjusted to carry bigger vehicles

Photo: BW Fleet Management Pte. Ltd., Singapore. The Berge Stahl, completed in 1986, has 365,000 deadweight tons, a length of 343 meters, a beam of 65 meters, and a draught of 25 meters. It represented, until 2011, the world’s largest ore carrier, carrying iron ore between Brazil (Ponta da Madeira

Photo: Charlotte Paul. Along with the main fluvial systems of Europe, such as the Seine River, several container barge services have been established between ports and their hinterlands. The above self-propelled barge is the largest being used on the Seine basin with 2,300 deadweight tons, a length of 105 meters,

Photo: Cesar Neves. This ship, a Very Large Crude Carrier, has a mass of about 310,000 deadweight tons and mostly carries oil between the Middle East and the Gulf of Mexico. It has a length of 330 meters, a beam of 58 meters, and a capacity of 350,936 cubic meters.