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| | | Shipping, Ports and World Trade |
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| | Ports of the world | | |  Ports are the link between maritime and land-based trade. Traditionally ports were located where the geography was favourable. In some cases this meant that the coastline at that point provided a sheltered anchorage ? Sydney and Freetown in Sierra Leone are examples. Other ports were located near the mouths of rivers, enabling river and sea traffic to meet: Hamburg, Rotterdam, Shanghai, London and New Orleans are examples. Others are to be found on straits between landmasses ? like Istanbul ? or where major trade routes pass ? such as Singapore.
See More... | | | | Shipping and World Trade | | |  It has been calculated that more than 90% of world trade, in tonnage terms, goes by ship. Despite the technical innovations that have transformed transport in the last two centuries, ships remain the most economical means of moving large quantities of goods from one place to another. They are cheaper to build and run than other forms of transport, such as road and railways, and they can carry huge amounts of cargo ? some modern oil tankers can carry more than half a million tons of oil at a time.
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