Travel by sea

Shipping

Maritime transport is the process of transporting a group of objects or persons through water from one area to another by means of water transport such as a ship, boat or any other method used on the surface of water, where goods are transported from one country to another country in the world By large vessels, including container vessels as well as oil tankers and raw material tankers.

It is worth mentioning that the shipbuilding industry evolved through history, where man relied on sailing vessels, and then developed and became active with oil and gas. Today, we find some developed countries have started to occupy their ships using nuclear energy. It is known that the early Muslims were the first to ride the sea, Trade and the spread of Islam across the world, and we will talk in this article about travel by sea in terms of characteristics and features.

Characteristics of shipping

For shipping a range of characteristics including:

Transport is dependent on the transfer of only one substance, such as transporting oil, or banana carriers between the Central American region and the United States. There are also specialized carriers for transporting grape juice, such as tankers between Algeria and France.

The load of a single vessel can be increased, as the load of some ships can reach hundreds of thousands of tons, within areas characterized by a water drier that is more than ten meters high.

The speed of the vessels became high, due to the techniques used in shipbuilding, where the speed reached fifty nautical miles.

The low cost of physical shipping when compared to other means of transport.

The presence of international companies with high experience and specializes in shipbuilding and shipping, in addition to shipbuilding and repair services, such as the construction of maintenance basins or places to store goods, and marine insurance.

Provides major sea transportation lines around the world.

River Transport

Rivers can be used for transport. It is worth mentioning that there are a set of conditions for river transport to be economically feasible, including:

The river must be rich and deep, in addition to being a wide and narrow path.

The area that is suitable for navigation from the river is long.

The river is slow to flow and there are no Oujandal Falls from the rocks.

To be far from the possibility of rock falls on its sides, and be a little frozen time.

To pour the river into open sea or into an ocean.