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Cargo ship at Puerto Cortés in Honduras.. A cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year, handling the bulk of international trade.
Ocean Alliance 5 Hapag-Lloyd Germany: 2,004,030 274 7.0% [Note 5] THE Alliance (until February 2025) Gemini (from March 2025) 6 Ocean Network Express (ONE) Japan: 1,809,846 232 6.3% [Note 6] THE Alliance(until February 2025) Premier Alliance (from March 2025) 7 Evergreen Marine Corporation Taiwan: 1,648,821 212 5.7% [Note 7] Ocean Alliance 8 ...
Maritime transport (or ocean transport) or more generally waterborne transport, is the transport of people or goods via waterways. Freight transport by sea has been widely used throughout recorded history.
The Ocean ships were a class of sixty cargo ships built in the United States by Todd Shipyards Corporation during the Second World War for the British Ministry of War Transport under contracts let by the British Purchasing Commission. Eighteen were lost to enemy action and eight to accidents; survivors were sold postwar into merchant service.
The Drake is part of the most voluminous ocean current in the world, with up to 5,300 million cubic feet flowing per second. Squeezed into the narrow passage, the current increases, traveling west ...
Present-day merchant shipping in the world's oceans. List of merchant navy capacity by flag is a list of the world foremost fleets of registered trading vessels ranked in both gross tonnage (GT) and deadweight tonnage (DWT) sorted by flag state.
Ocean Network Express: 6x Imabari Shipbuilding and Japan Marine United: 24,000 [123] 2023 Seaspan ULC: 2x; 6 — 10 car carriers Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding: 24,000 [124] [125] 2022 Evergreen: 6x Samsung Heavy Industries: 23,992 [126] [127] 2022 Evergreen: 4x Jiangnan Shipyard 4x Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding: 24,004 [128] [126] 2023 Hapag ...
This list of freight ship companies is arranged by country. Companies listed own and/or operate bulk carriers , car carriers , container ships , Roll-on/roll-off (for freight), and tankers . For a list of companies that own and operate passenger ships ( cruise ships , cargo-passenger ships , and ferries ), see List of passenger ship companies .