Shipping
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Shipping is the transport of cargo between seaports by ships, typically large steel vessels powered by diesel engines or steam turbine plants. Ships are extremely expensive.
Types of ships involved
- Container ships / Box boats
- Tankers
- Crude Oil
- Product
- General cargo ships
- Cable layers
- Offshore supply vessels
- DP(Dynamically Positioned) ships
- Ferries / RO-RO (RollOn-RollOff)
- Gas carriers
- Car carriers
- Tugboats
- Dredgers
- Barges
Shipping companies
- ACL
- Aliança
- ANL
- American President Lines (APL)
- Blue Star Line
- Canada Steamship Lines (CSL)
- CMA CGM
- Cosco
- DAL
- Hamburg Süd
- Hanjin
- Hapag-Lloyd
- Hyundai
- K Line
- Maersk Sealand
- Matson
- MSC
- Mitsui O.S.K.
- Neptune Orient Lines (NOL)
- NYK Line
- OOCL
- P&O Nedlloyd
- Safmarine
- Star Reefers
- United Arab Shipping Company
- Vertom Shipping and Trading b.v.
- WAL
- Yang Ming
