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This 9 page paper looks at the role and industry of feeder container ships. The paper looks at what they are, how they are used and the conditions and drivers in the feeder container ship industry. The bibliography cites 9 sources.
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larger ships which travel the longer distances. Feeder ships may be seen as the first and last link in the transportation of goods by many container ships that the take
the goods to the large ships and then collect them, usually taking them to and from hub ports. This is a system that has developed a ships have become large
and the number of docks that can accommodate them has decreased. One example of a port that has been built with this hub style delivery style in place is the
new Rotterdam port; Maasvlakte-2 (MV2) (Evers and De Feijter, 2004). The terminals have been designed to serve the intercontinental ships which are feed with the cargo by the feeder ships
which bring and take the cargo from the port collecting and distributing it along the hinterland. This not only facilities the ability of the port to operate and helps with
the transportation of the goods it is also a critical factor of port logistics in the area (Evers and De Feijter, 2004). If we look to how and why
the issue and use of feeder ships is changing we need to look at the shipping industry background and the drivers that have created demand with the move towards larger
ships. International trade has been greatly facilitated by the container shipping industry. The growth in the demand for the use of container shipping in some areas and the sue to
ship nearly 40 times the level of goods that are sent by air has made it a very attractive market for companies to enter, but the reality is often different
from the perceived attraction and pull factors due to a range of complex operational issues. Over the last two decades the level of trade undertaken by sea has seen
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