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Shipping is the transport of cargo between seaports by ships, typically large steel vessels powered by diesel engines or steam turbine plants. Ships are extremely expensive. The term originates with the shipping trade, of Wind power ships, and has come to refer to the delivery of cargo and parcels of any size above the common mail of letters and postcards.

Types of ships involved

• Container ships / Box boats
• Tankers
  • Crude Oil
  • Product
• General cargo ships
• Cable layers
• Offshore supply vessels
• DP(Dynamically Positioned) ships
• Ferries / RO-RO (RollOn-RollOff )
• Gas carriers
• Car carriers
• Tugboats
• Dredgers
• Barges

Shipping companies

• ACL
• Aliança
• ANL
• American President Lines (APL)
• Blue Star Line
• Canada Steamship Lines (CSL)
• China Navigation Company (CNCO) of Hong Kong
• CMA CGM
• Cosco
• CP Ships
• DAL
• Evergreen Marine Corporation is a Taiwanese shipping company.
• Hamburg Süd
• Hanjin
• Hapag-Lloyd
• Hyundai
• K Line
• Maersk Sealand
• Matson
• MSC
• Mitsui O.S.K.
• Neptune Orient Lines (NOL)
• NYK Line
• OOCL
• P&O Nedlloyd
• Safmarine
• Star Reefers
• United Arab Shipping Company
• Vertom Shipping and Trading b.v.
• WAL
• Yang Ming

Ship Classification Registers

• Lloyd's Register of Shipping
• American Bureau of Shipping

See also

• affreightment
• Mid-stream operation