Water
transportation is the movement of goods and also can be used for transport a
people around the world. The journey of water transportation can move through
the inland or domestic waterway such as river, lakes and oceans. The most
important link for freight movement is the oceans because oceans are the
largest natural highway that can transport goods by using a big ship in bulk.
In the history of past, most of water transport use some motive power such as
current and wind that can be provide by nature. Now, water transportation has
been improved by modern technology that has a large space and the speed
movement faster than before. They are a lot of shipping companies that run a
business of water transportation but there are famous shipping companies that have
a largest ship or vessel in the world. The shipping company is Maersk Sealand group.
Maersk Sealand or known as Maersk Group. This company is located in Copenhagen, Denmark that was established in 1904. Maersk Group has a lot of subsidiary and offices in more than 135 countries worldwide. Maersk Group also has around 108000 employees. Maersk Group activities are organised into several main business segments such as Container shipping, Tankers, Oil and gas activities, Retail activity and shipyards. Maersk group also own terminal that called A.P.Moller terminal. Container shipping of maersk sealand is considered as the largest container ship operator and supply vessel operator in the world.
The company
has held that distinction since 1996. It operates 600 vessels with 3.8 million twenty
foot equivalent unit (TEU) container capacity. It also owns the ship Emma
Maersk, considered as the largest container ship and the longest container ship
ever built in the world when launched in 2006. This ship or called
vessel able to carry around 11,000 TEU or 14,770 TEU depends on its carry. The
company has a presence in 135 countries around the world.
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