Everytrade – A Liner Primer

By Geoff Uttmark

It is the maritime sector on which the overwhelming majority of the world’s shippers depend, though many never see a ship.

It is an occupation as different in skills and style from bulk tramping as Bangkok is distant from Baltimore (Figure1).

It is a fleet that tallies less than a fourth of the world’s bottoms (Figure 2), yet by some accounts produces almost three fourths of all global oceanborne freight revenue.

It is a technological innovation less than fifty years old that has injected the ubiquitous “box” into any corner of the globe where a cargo can be found to fill it.

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