Ship transport

Ship transport is watercraft carrying people (passengers) or goods (cargo).

Sea transport has been the largest carrier of freight throughout recorded history. Although the importance of sea travel for passengers has decreased due to aviation, it is effective for short trips and pleasure cruises. Transport by water is cheaper than transport by air, despite fluctuating exchange rates and CAF charges to account for such.

Ship transport can be over any distance by boat, ship, sailboat or barge, over oceans and lakes, through canals or along rivers. Shipping may be for commerce, recreation or the military purpose. Virtually any material can be moved by water; however, water transport becomes impractical when material delivery is highly time-critical.

Containerization revolutionized ship transport starting in the 1970s. "General cargo" includes goods packaged in boxes, cases, pallets, and barrels. When a cargo is carried in more than one mode, it is intermodal or co-modal.

Merchant shipping

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Americana: Conquering pirates

The Oklahoman 15 Oct 2018

This is the stern of the USS Constitution, one of the first six ships in the U.S ... The flags that flew over American merchant ships at the end of the 1700s had 15 stars and 15 stripes ... Pirate ships flew false flags as they approached the merchant ship ... With daggers in their teeth and cannons firing at close range, pirates quickly overpowered merchant ships ... Captured ship crews were made into slaves and held for ransom....

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New book tells stories of Japanese ships sunken in Marianas during World War II

Guam Pacific Daily News 15 Oct 2018

Guam historian Dave Lotz' latest book tells the stories of Japanese merchant ships sunken in the Mariana Islands during World War II ... submarines evolved during the war in the Pacific, which involved tactics including attacking Japanese merchant ships to weaken the opponent's forces ... Remnants of ships still exist ... Remnants of these Japanese merchant ships still exist in the Marianas, sunken by U.S....

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Hate speech has silenced the voices of those risking death on Europe's seas | Regina Catrambone

The Guardian 15 Oct 2018

According to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), at least 1,778 people have perished this year in the attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea, the world’s deadliest migratory route ... No NGO rescue boats currently in central Mediterranean, agencies warn ... Merchant ships no longer perform rescues because, they say, they are afraid of being left adrift while waiting to be notified of a disembarkation port while those who survive almost fade away....

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Hate speech has silenced the voices of those risking death on Europe's seas

The Observer 15 Oct 2018

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Americana: Defeating the pirates

Provo Daily Herald 14 Oct 2018

The flags that flew over American merchant ships at the end of the 1700s had fifteen stars and fifteen stripes ... But before the merchants could sell in Southern Europe, they had to battle through the pirate infested waters of North Africa. Pirate ships flew false flags as they approached the merchant ship ... With daggers in their teeth and cannons firing at close range, pirates quickly overpowered merchant ships....

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Heroes saved many Jews during War War II, readers say — but some countries were ...

The Los Angeles Times 13 Oct 2018

Readers React Readers React Opinion Heroes saved many Jews during War War II, readers say — but some countries were complicit with their occupiers ... 27, 2005 ... They were held in extremely crowded conditions, almost without food and water and with no sanitary facilities before being shipped to death camps for their mass murder ... I was one of 56 youngsters on the Serpa Pinto, a merchant ship from Portugal that made it to New York on Sept....

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Elmer Braundmeier perished when ship sank in Atlantic Ocean in WWII

Belleville News-Democrat 11 Oct 2018

Navy Armed Guard on the Liberty Ship William Pierce Frye and was killed on March 29, 1943, south of Greenland in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II ... Elmer Braundmeier of Alhambra, joined the Navy and after basic training was assigned to the Merchant Marines and a new Liberty Ship, which was a cargo ship built beginning in 1942 during World War II and launched on Feb ... Elmer was one of those Armed Guards, who manned the ships guns....

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Image: Mediterranean slick

PhysOrg 10 Oct 2018

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has imaged the oil spill in the Mediterranean following a collision between two merchant ships on Sunday 7 October 2018. A Tunisian cargo ship is reported to have struck the hull of a Cypriot container ship in waters north of the French island of Corsica. There were no casualties, but the collision caused a fuel leak – which has resulted in an oil slick about 20 km long ... ....

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EU harbors fears about China’s maritime Silk Roads

Asia Times 10 Oct 2018

Speed has never been a quality associated with the EU ... In the past decade, transport and infrastructure giants China Ocean Shipping Company, known as COSCO, and China Merchants Port Holdings have acquired stakes in 13 European ports, a study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development highlighted. Chinese involvement centers on 10% of the continent’s shipping container capacity....

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ShippingEasy Transforms E-commerce Shipping by Leveraging Voice

Odessa American 09 Oct 2018

With ShippingEasy, online merchants of all sizes can ship fast, with the best rates, and grow orders ... Complete with email marketing, customer and inventory management features, along with our industry-leading phone, chat, and email support – tens of thousands of online merchants use our award-winning software to ship fast, cheap, and to grow their businesses....

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Alastair Couper obituary

The Guardian 09 Oct 2018

He also focused his efforts on improving their plight through his writing, which included co-authored books such as Voyages of Abuse – Seafarers, Human Rights and International Shipping (1999) and Fishers and Plunderers ... A dedicated socialist, he later smuggled anti-apartheid books into South Africa on ships that he captained, and in the UK he took part in the Aldermaston marches against nuclear weapons....

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Revealed: Princess Eugenie and her fiancé Jack Brooksbank are both related to... the same slave-trading conman

This is Money 09 Oct 2018

He then locked them up for months on so-called factory ships, from which they were eventually dispatched to the New World ... Djimon Hounsou as Sengbe Pieh in the film about a slave ship captured by its slaves who wanted freedom in the USA ... With his connivance, a ‘floating factory’ ship, the Argyle, lay offshore as a slave-holding pen to supply transatlantic sailing ships bound for the West Indies....

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Maritime Search and Rescue workshop conducted by Indian coast guard

Sify 09 Oct 2018

[India], Oct 9 (ANI) ... Participants from M-SAR stakeholder organisations, maritime industry, DGS/MMD, DGCA/AAI, DSS, PMB, Indian Registry of Shipping, Department of Fisheries, ISTRAC, INCOIS, DMA, CISF, Customs, Andaman Merchant club, Rep of sport fishing club among others, actively contributed to the discussions during the event ... (ANI) ....

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