Seas and oceans in the maritimization

« Seas and oceans This document is a picture of a container ship in the port of Seattle which is situated in Washington. The Seattle port is a global container port traffic.

In fact, North America represented 8% of this traffic in the world, it is the maritimization, a process leading to increase exploitation of resources of seas and oceans and the boom in trade by sea. On the picture, we can see on the foreground the largest port of Seattle with many containers.

Those containers can elevate by cranes and transport by boats, cargos and trucks.

Then, the background represents the city of Seattle with buildings.

This city with its huge size is a symbol of a world economy.

We can ask us how does container port contribute to the globalized world by maritimization. First of all, we will study economical stakes of the port in its state and then, we will see the consequences associated at the maritimization by containers. Firstly, almost 90% of trade pass by sea.

The major ports, on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, have the challenge of being the best thanks to container traffic.

The contemporary port industry is organized to serve the global economy, regional and local development needs like with the transport by containers for example. In fact, we can see on the document a lot of containers because containerization allows the distribution of goods in a unified form, allowing a combination of rail, road, river and maritime transport. In addition, the fundamental value of ports is economic since they support trade flows.

As they can represent a significant economic investment, ports are expected to provide enough benefits to justify these investments.

On the document we can see the passage of the port by which the cargoes arrive.

Global trade is impossible without transport, which makes maritime transport a key to trade.

Almost all maritime transport is therefore considered international trade. Growth in global trade and distribution leads to continued demand for new containers. From the perspective of shipping companies, their containers are secondary assets allowing more efficient use of their ship.

They maximize the use of their ship, which is their main asset, and the container is a tool for this. To finish about.... »