The website "Ships Reviews" will try to give you some interesting and useful information about cargo ships, cruise ships, ferries and yachts. We will give you interesting information about latest technology innovations in the heart of ship-building - Asia. Also the "Ships Reviews" will try to give specifications for the cruise ships, yachts and cargo ships. You will be able to see interesting links, and many good offers for "Ships for Sale". But let's start from the very beginning, and explain something about cargo ships and Maritime Transport.
Maritime Transport is the sector of economy with fastest development and highest profits. The companies operation with cargo ships are carrying different types of cargo - bulk, liquid, containers, cars and so on. The ships carrying different cargoes are different in looking, with different measurements and different requirements. But you will wonder, why the world's economy need ships to carry cargo and passengers, when this is the slowest way. Actually maritime transport is the most environmental and cheapest way to carry cargoes. The ships are expensive, but the way they opperate gives them possibility to be useful for 20 or even more years. This is making them so useful and profitable. Ship-owners are well prosperiting in the years iof financial crisis, because the economy delay do not means instustry delays.
The largest cargo ships and ships are all definitely are the Oil Tankers. Some years ago were built a lot of ULCCs (Ultra Large Crude Carrier), which are carrying large volume of crude oil. The largest oil tankers are - Knock Nevis (deadweight of 565,000 m.t.), TI Europe (deadweight of 441,893  m.t.), TI Oceania (deadweight of 441,585 m.t.). These oil tankers are carrying millions barels of petrol only with one course from the one side of the world, to another. You can imagine the price of such long pipe is ships were not used here. Also container shipping is another type of maritime transport. Here the business is divided between some companies - Maersk Line, Mediterranean SC S.A and MOL Shipping Line. The largest container ship ever built is Emma Maersk (deadweight of 156,907 m.t. and capacity for 13,500 TEUs). Another very interesting and traditional type of shipping vessels are bulk carriers. The largest bulk carrier is Berge Stahl (deadweight of 364,767 m.t.). These words only show some of our words, that shipping and maritime transport is the fastest developing sector of economy in the world.
Cruise ships are also another very popular sector of maritime transport last years. The prices of cruises suddenly decreased too much and now this is the best vacation you can make. The largest company in cruise shipping is Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, which is owning a lot of large cruise ships and definitely the ones one - Oasis of the Seas (with capacity of 5,400 passengers), who will be launched at the end of the year, The cruise ships, which you should already know are Queen Elizabeth 2 (the oldest opperating ship, with more than 1 million passenger carried), Queen Mary 2, Independence of the Seas, MSC Orchestra, MSC Poesia, Golden Princess and many more. In many ways the cruise shipping is much better than Hotel Travel, because this will give you the opportunity to visit different exotic places in 5 stars resort.