ADVANTAGE OF WATER CARRIER

Water transportation is also known as water carrier. 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. Air transportation is expensive because of high maintenance of the air plane. Sea 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. Water transportation have a advantage and disadvantage. This article will discuss about the advantage water carrier.

The investment of water carrier not big like road, rail and pipeline mode because the way is free. Its natural. Its does not require any special infrastructure like roads and airport. Road transportation, the accessibility is limited because it must have road to reach destination. If don’t, it cannot reach to the destination. Not all the road in the world can access other country. Some must use air transportation; some must using seaways to access. Water carriers have an accessibility to reach other country. Its also can access to most part of the world. By using the water carrier, it easy for user to transport the goods to the other country.

Water carrier consists of many type of ship. If we want to transport container, there is ship call container ship. There is a lot of ship that have a specialty to transport the goods. Every ship have their specialty.  It’s easy for user to choose what there want to transport the goods because the ship have many kind type of ship. It also have many equipment to make intermodals running smoothly. Intermodal is the change of mode of transportation. For example, ship bring the freight to the port, truck take the freight to factory to process the goods. This process call intermodal.