Deep sea shipping

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Deep sea shipping relates to the maritime transport of our goods on an intercontinental routes, commonly across multiple oceans.

Commonly, in the case of container shipping, these journeys are handled by larger vessels on main regional port to main regional port shipping lanes and smaller vessel handle the regional short sea deliveries of containers from/to other smaller ports to these main ones.

A diagram representing a commonly used container shipping strategy - combining deep and short sea shipping. Deep sea shipping from main port to main port in intercontinental regions and short sea feeder lanes from smaller regional port to the main ones.
Commonly used container shipping strategy – combining deep and short sea shipping
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