What is Liner Shipping and what is its role in container shipping..??
There are more than 55,000 merchant ships plying global trade around the world and these ships include General Cargo, Bulk and Break Bulk ships, Container ships, Chemical, Oil and LNG Tankers, Passenger, and various other types of ships.
While these are types of ships, these ships could be operating on two types of services – Liner and Tramp services.
In this article, we look at a liner service as it applies to container shipping.
