OCEAN TRANSPORTATION

Ocean transportation is very important transport for international trade. Compared with another transportation, the transportation of heavy and bulky goods is more convenient by sea. Other than that, ocean transportation such as ferry is use for carry passengers to their destination. That because of the time taken to reach their destination a bit longer, so that it become decline for certain journey and country. Nowadays, the carrier used ocean transportation for deliver the shipment to another countries even take a long time.

The specific types of carrier are liners, tramps and private vessels. All of that provides specific service features to the international transport user. For the first one is liners. Liners are the ships that apply fixed routes by follow the schedules. They usually charges based on container. Liner services are either container or break-bulk types. For transfer the freight to the liner, the freight is loaded by machine just for bulk. While for containerized that use crane to load the freight. Because a ship is only earning revenue at sea, it is easy to see why containers have become a dominant form of packaged-goods shipping. The second one is tramps. Tramps can be categorized as a chartered because it can be leased. Time charters are usually in long-term charters which the shipper will make or arrange more than one-way movement. It is only focus on for the bulky For the last one is private vessels. This is private ships that use for owned. This ships are more flexible compared with tramps and liners. Many oil ships are fix with this category, as do automotive and lumber vessels.

So that, as a human, we can’t move or carry the heavy shipment to anywhere as fast as possible. Not only that, we also can’t transfer or transmit the shipment to another country. To overcome this problem, human generate something that will help them to complete the activities as usual. Such as they build ship for the ocean transportation.