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[[Image:Container vessels.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Container ships, San Francisco.]]

[[Image:Container vessels.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Container ships, San Francisco.]]

'''Shipping''' is the transportation of goods and [[cargo]]. Over 90% of world trade is carried by the international shipping industry, and without shipping the import and export of goods on the scale necessary for the modern world would not be possible.<ref>''British Chamber of Shipping'' [http://www.british-shipping.org/index.htm British Shipping] Accessed July 12 2007</ref>In 2003, the international shipping industry transported 6.2 billion tonnes of cargo.<ref>'''Clarkson Research Studies''' ''The Tramp Shipping

'''Shipping''' is the transportation of goods and [[cargo]]. Over 90% of world trade is carried by the international shipping industry, and without shipping the import and export of goods on the scale necessary for the modern world would not be possible.<ref>''British Chamber of Shipping'' [http://www.british-shipping.org/index.htm British Shipping] Accessed July 12 2007</ref> In 2003, the international shipping industry transported 6.2 billion tonnes of cargo.<ref>'''Clarkson Research Studies''' ''The Tramp Shipping

Market''[http://www.marisec.org/ClarksonReportFinalDraft.pdf] Accessed July 12 2007</ref> The British Chamber of Shipping asserts that there are around 50,000 merchant ships trading internationally, transporting every kind of cargo, registered in over 150 nations, and manned by over a million seafarers of virtually every nationality.<ref>''British Chamber of Shipping'' op cit</ref>   

Market''[http://www.marisec.org/ClarksonReportFinalDraft.pdf] Accessed July 12 2007</ref> The British Chamber of Shipping asserts that there are around 50,000 merchant ships trading internationally, transporting every kind of cargo, registered in over 150 nations, and manned by over a million seafarers of virtually every nationality.<ref>''British Chamber of Shipping'' op cit</ref>