Shopping and Shipping

Your daily shopping cart equals a weight that one person can easily carry home. The cart of your whole country or even your whole continent is something else. Most of it is imported by ships from other countries or continents. Worldwide, we ship about 8.2 billion tons of cargo a year. That's more than one ton per person and probably two to three tons for richer people like us in the West. The total number of merchant ships responsible for this transport is around 50.000. Transport by water is the cheapest way of transportation per ton and ships like this SC Baltic are the smaller units, transporting all kinds of items for your future shopping list. This ship is a so called Side Port Ship, she can load her cargo via a large door in her SB side.