This document provides an overview of liner shipping. It defines liner shipping as the transport of goods by large ocean-going vessels that follow regular routes and schedules. Approximately 400 liner services currently operate worldwide. The largest shipping companies, like Maersk and MSC, have fleets of over 2 million TEU. Liner shipping plays an important role in global trade by lowering costs, increasing availability of goods, and fueling economic growth through transportation of large loads. However, it also contributes to environmental costs and delays in transport time. The document outlines the types of liner routes and provides examples of how liner shipping impacts everyday life.

1. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman Maritime University,
Bangladesh

2. Welcome to Presentation on
Liner Shipping
By
Imdadul Haque Bhuiyan
Id: 2013(MPSM)
BSMRMU

3. Shipping & Liner shipping
Shipping originally referres to transport by sea.
Liner shipping is the service of transporting
goods by means of high-capacity, ocean-going
ships that transit regular routes on fixed
schedules.

4. About Liner Shipping
• Transportation by sea in the early days was
done by sailing ships, which depended on wind
and weather.
• There are approximately 400 liner services in
operation today,
• Most providing weekly departures from all the
ports that each service calls.

5. Impact of Liner Shipping
Positive:
• Lowering of Costs
• Increases in Availability
• Economic Growth
• Large Loads
• Global Economic Engine
Negative:
• Time
• Environmental Costs

6. Mega Shippers - The World’s 5
Biggest Shipping Companies
• From Danish major Møller-Maersk to
German shipping giant Mitsui O.S.K.
Lines, Ship-technology.com profiles
the world’s top 5 biggest shipping
companies based on TEU or weight
carrying capacity of their
containerships.

7. 1. A.P. Møller-Maersk
Capacity: 2.8m TEU
2. Mediterranean Shipping Company
Capacity: 2.43m TEU
3. CMA CGM
Capacity: 1.55m TEU
4. American President Lines (APL)
Capacity: 1.1m TEU
5. Hapag-Lloyd
Capacity: 1m TEU

8. Alphaliner - TOP 5
Operated fleets as per 25 January 2016

9. Types of liner service route

10. Liner Shipping in our Life. Example:

21. Thanks to All.

22. Reference:
• http://www.worldshipping.org/about-the-
industry/how-liner-shipping-works
• http://maritimewiki.org/wiki/Liner_Shipping
• http://www.alphaliner.com/top100/
• http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/ocean/ph
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