11.3.2 Major global areas of supply and demand

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11.3.2 Major global areas of supply and demand

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11 Introduction
11.1 The Maritime World
11.1.1 Lloyd’s Register of Shipping
11.1.2 Trade routes and port locations
11.1.2.1 Southern African Ports
11.1.2.2 Examples of other African ports
11.1.2.3 Examples of other major world ports
11.1.2.4 Trade routes
Iron Ore
Coal
Grain
Oil
Containers
11.1.3 International Time Zones & International Date Line
11.1.4 Maritime-related Careers
11.1.4.1 Sea-going Careers
11.2 Shipping Operations
11.2.1 Harbours as transport interface
11.2.2 Ship operations
11.2.2.1 Ship owning
11.2.2.2 Ship management
11.2.2.3 Ship broking
11.2.2.4 Ship chartering
11.2.2.5 Ship scrapping
11.2.2.6 Shipbuilding
11.2.2.7 Ship’s agency operations and procedures
11.2.2.8 Bunkering
11.2.2.9 Cargowork
11.2.2.10 Stevedoring
11.2.2.11 Ship repair and maintenance
11.2.2.12 Ship chandling
11.2.2.13 Salvage
11.2.5 Voyage costs
11.3 International Trade
11.3.1 Principles governing trade and transport
11.3.2 Major global areas of supply and demand
11.3.3 Factors influencing trade fluctuations
11.3.4 Procedures pertaining to shipping containers
11.3.5 A Littoral State
11.4 Maritime Environmental Challenges
11.4.1 Environmental aspects which could affect maritime operations
11.4.2 Influence of Weather Systems on shipping operations
11.4.3 Fishing
11.4.4 The Environmental Impact of the Extraction of Minerals, Oil, and Gas
11.4.5 Alternative Energy Sources
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September 19, 2016

Major global areas of supply and demand

The major industrialised countries (see the map below showing the industrialised regions) are consumers of raw materials (e.g. iron ore, coal, oil, a range of other minerals) and, because there are large concentrations of people in those countries, they also need to import large amounts of food (e.g. grain, fruit). […]