Tredeso Logistics SA

The world fleet consists of 6 main types of ships: tankers, passenger ships, container ships, fishing ships, bulk carriers and general cargo ships. The modern fleet has more than 55,000 civilian ships carrying cargo around the world, and this number is growing from year to year. The engine of the container ship is 1000 times more powerful than a regular family car. However, the container ship runs at a top speed of 23 knots, which means just 26.5 miles per hour.

Shipping is the oldest industry in the world, dating back thousands of years. And today it does not give up its positions, continuing to lead in the field of transportation. Ships are the “greenest” type of transport. Shipping accounts for 90% of all world trade.

Compared to the environmental impact of other types of transportation of goods, shipping has much less pronounced harm to the world’s nature, and also consumes less energy than transportation by plane or truck. Shipping a container from Shanghai to Le Havre emits less greenhouse gases than shipping the same cargo in a container to Lyon. However, due to the gigantic size of the industry, its overall environmental impact makes it one of the most polluting industries in the world.

Shipping is currently the safest form of commercial transport. Shipping was one of the first industries to widely apply international safety standards back in the 19th century. Safety rules on ships have been developed and implemented by the IMO and ILO organizations.

About a third of the crews of ships around the world do not have access to any means of communication while at sea. When ships are out of reach of the coastline, only 10% of crews have an Internet connection, which often isolates sailors from their loved ones and family, as well as from online entertainment, for weeks in a row. However, the revolutionary form of the quantum internet, in which ships are used as transmitters for the network, could change everything.