Maritime Industry Case Study

1377 Words3 Pages

REPORT MARITIME SUPPLY CHAIN: HINTERLAND CONNECTION OF SEAPORTS IN MALAYSIA

INTRODUCTION
Maritime is primarily an adjective that describes objects or activities related to the sea. Why maritime important to grow up economy? It is because It is the main means for transporting goods internationally, and many cities rely on their ports as a major source of revenue. The maritime industry, which is a subsector of the transport sector, globally accounts for over 70% of transportation requirement of the world. Developing countries are expanding their participation in a range of different maritime businesses. They already hold strong positions in ship scrapping, ship registration and the supply of seafarers. They have growing market share in more …show more content…

The main points for the topic is ports around the world-ranking, function of seaport, hinterland connections, functions of hinterlands and cascade effect.
PORTS AROUND THE WORLD RANKING
Ports handle a variety of traffic other than containerized shipments. Therefore, there are multiple ways to measure port activity. The American Association of Port Authorities has produced a “World Port Rankings” for the top 100 ports in the world in 2013 based on both cargo tonnage and container traffic. In order to get a more accurate measure for the most active container port one must rank based on container traffic, measured in TEU.
As the largest exporter of goods moving on container services, Shanghai, China ranks as number one in the top fifty global container ports. Furthermore, Singapore still ranks as number two mainly because it is an important hub where containers from one-liner service are transferred to another liner service for on-carriage to their final destination. The top ports around the world ranking demonstrating the truly global nature of the liner shipping business and the importance of the networks of ports that facilitate timely and efficient ship and cargo movement.
FUNCTIONS OF …show more content…

One possible reason for transhipment is to change the means of transport during the journey, for example from ship transport to road transport, known as trans-loading. Port of Singapore as the world’s largest transhipment hub, the Port of Singapore handled a total of 32.63 million TEU terminal operatorsfor Singapore. Being the top transhipment hub, Singapore is connected to 600 ports in 123 countries globally. The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) works closely with both port operators and shipping companies to regulate and develop the port into a global

Open Document