Examples of vessels sailing in the high seas

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Ocean Water Transport

The Ocean waterways carry a lot of the world’s trade, the majority of the bulky goods, materials, and passengers pass through ocean waterways from one country to another at the cheapest cost. Various forms of vessels sail in the high seas.

Examples of vessels sailing in the high seas

1. The passenger Liners: these vessels carry mainly passengers, mails, and highly valued goods. However, these types of vessels operate on scheduled routes.
2. Cargo Liner: these vessels combined freight with passengers; they also keep to scheduled routes like the passenger liners. Cargo liners are well suited for the transportation of perishable goods because of the provision of inbuilt refrigerators in most of them.
3. Tramps: they are other kinds of vessels used in high areas that are dependent cargo boats that have no scheduled time and place. These vessels only sail when they have enough cargo to carry. Tramps are only designed for carrying goods.
4. Oil Tankers and refrigerated Ships: these vessels are only designed for carrying oil and perishable goods such as fish, meat, dairy products, and wines.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Water Transport

Water transportation has benefits and challenges. Each kind of water transportation has its importance and demerits.

Advantages of Water transport

1. It involves a low running cost which makes it the cheapest form of transport system over long distances.
2. Large vessels especially run economically since fuel costs can be spread over greater quantities. Distance does not add greatly to total transport costs.
3. It has the capacity of conveying heavy and bulky cargoes.
4. Water transport has a natural route network that is free to use. This allows flexibility of service, frequency of movement, and little congestion (except where water channels are narrow (as in the case of the Straits of Dover).
5. Canals provide good access along their line sides and also encourage the development of industry and commerce. Some towns have grown largely through their connection with canals. For instance, Stour port.
6. It causes relatively little environmental pollution, but sometimes oil discharge from tankers seems to be the major problem to this mode of transportation.

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