Shipping: Home

By a broad definition the shipping industry covers shipping, shipbuilding and ports:

Shipping: on a global level, the shipping market is widely segmented into

• Dry bulk market,
• Wet bulk market (also called tankers market)
• Containers Market
• Passenger Shipping
• General Cargo

For a short description: "Water Transportation." Encyclopedia of Global Industries. 5th ed. Detroit: Gale, 2011. 1173-1183. Gale Virtual Reference Library. (accessed Web. 16 June 2014).

Industrial classification:
NAICS-codes: 483
NACE-codes: 50 (5010, 5020, 5030, 5229)

Shipbuilding:

For a short description: "Shipbuilding and Repair." Encyclopedia of Global Industries. 5th ed. Detroit: Gale, 2011. 1113-1119. Gale Virtual Reference Library. (accessed Web. 16 June 2014).

Industrial classification:
NAICS-codes: 336611
NACE-codes 301100

Ports:

Statistical portrait

Ports.com: a tool to find ports

Industrial classification:
NAICS-codes 488310
NACE-codes 5222

Outline of the transport industry:

The Geography of Transport Systems: this information resource is to be found as a printed book

Table of Content of this libguide:

Home:

• Shipping industry - overview: a short description of the industry
• TOC - Table of Contents

Resources via CBS Library:

• shipping - statistics
• shipping - market reports
• shipping - company information
• shipping - literature
• shipping - news
• shipping - law

International Organizations & Associations:

• International associations with access to shipping information
• International organizations - law and shipping

Commercial providers of shipping information:

• Information resources - no access through CBS Library