Tides
- 10 Introduction
- 10.1 Learning Outcome 1: Maritime World
- 10.1.1 Terminology used by the shipping industry
- Parts of ships and equipment aboard ships
- Some more terms for parts of the ship
- Ship’s Load Line
- Some more names for parts of a ship
- Describing the position of an object from on board a ship
- Relative positions aboard ships
- Some parts of ships are shown below
- Engine Room
- Hatchcovers
- Wheelhouse
- Various Ship Types
- Containerships
- Bulk Carriers
- Tankers and Gas Carriers
- Multi-purpose Ships
- Passenger Ships
- Refrigerated Ships
- Ro-ro ships
- Heavylift Ships
- Ferries
- Fishing vessels
- Tugs
- Dredgers
- Warships
- General terminology relating to ships
- Test yourself: terminology
- 10.1.2 Continents, water masses, canals, sea currents and major ports
- Continents, lines of latitude, lines of longitude, oceans and ocean currents
- Seas, gulfs, bays and straits
- Canals, major navigable rivers and some important ports
- Europe
- Test yourself: Continents, water masses sea currents and major ports
- 10.1.3 Time Zones
- 10.1.4 Maritime Careers
- Harbour Services
- Ship chandlers and ship repair services
- Ship chartering, brokering and management.
- Crewing of ships
- Working ashore
- Marine salvage
- 10.2. Learning Outcome 2: Shipping Operations
- 10.2.1 Port location, construction and operations
- 10.2.2 Major shipping companies
- Grindrod
- Maritime Carrier Services (MACS)
- Smit Amandla Marine
- 10.2.3 Marine Salvage
- 10.2.4. Calculating voyage duration
- 10. 3 Learning Outcome 3: International Trade
- 10.3.1. History of the South African maritime trade
- 10.3.2 The world’s leading trading nations
- 10.3.3 The advantages of containerisation
- 10.3.4 Transgressions of maritime law
- 10. 4 Learning Outcome 4: Maritime Environmental Challenges
- 10.4.1 The Physical Maritime Environment
- Tides
- Ocean Currents
- 10.4.2 Meteorological factors that impact on shipping operations, in port and at sea.
- 10.4.3 The fragility of marine ecosystems and the need to safeguard such systems.
- 10.4.4 Extraction of marine resources
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