Marine Guide

Italy has played an important role in marine trade since antiquity, owing to its unique topography. In earlier times, ports in Italy like Genoa, Venice, Pisa, and Amalfi competed for dominance of trade routes along the Mediterranean Sea throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance. While they eventually fell victim to the rise of Atlantic trade…

Before diving into the list of the major ports in India, let’s find out more about India’s sea trade activities and statistics. Introduction Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu are the nine coastal states that makeup India. One of the biggest areas of land that juts out into…

Let us first understand what ports are before moving on to the top major ports in UAE. A seaport is a nautical facility with one or more wharves where ships, including freight and passengers, can load and discharge cargo and passengers. It is usually found on the seashore or in an estuary, however, some well-known…

Container terminals are very vital in this maritime industry as many facilities are being provided at the terminals and most of the part of the shipping can be done at the container terminals like packaging, loading-unloading, storing containers for some time and repair. Hence management and operating of these container terminals is a challenging job….

Spain has a long maritime history and used to be a major naval power. For this reason, it was of immense strategic importance in the past. It has coastal regions on three of its sides and hence the maritime industry got a boost. It is the base of the trading system in Europe. Many of…

A straddle carrier or also known as a straddle truck is a lifting apparatus. Straddle carriers helps in lifting the containers for stacking them on the terminals. It ensures easy and smooth movement of containers from one place to another. The working of a straddle carrier is different from that of a conventional truck which…

In simple terms, a container depot can be defined as a storage area for shipping containers once they are empty (after being unloaded).  It won’t be an exaggeration to say that the shipping industry is the backbone of global trade and commerce.  Around 80% of the global trade by volume and 70% of global trade…

Canals are artificial waterways for shipping or irrigation as they reduce the distance of the routes.  With the advent of other means of transport, canals are not used for transporting people but they still play a very important role in the transportation of goods. As we had seen in the Ever Given getting stuck in…

The marine shipping industry is very vast and fast-changing. With so much news and developments, it is very necessary that for seafarers have an online space like maritime forums or discussion boards to get their queries answered, issues solved, or discuss the industry. The problems have increased due to the Covid situation all over the…

The Magdeburg Water Bridge in Germany is the longest navigable aqueduct that connects the Elbe-Havel Canal to the Mittelland Canal, crossing over the Elbe River. What comes to your mind first when we say a bridge? Right, the first thing that comes to our mind is that a Bridge is a structure that acts as…