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The Positives and Negatives of Sea Transportation

When you are a business that needs to get your goods from one place in Australia to another place in another country I am sure you want the best rate and the best time which is why today we want to take a look into sea transportation for your products. Sea transportation might be a good option if you are shipping outside of Australia compared to within the country. When shipping from one area to another within the country, for example from Melbourne to Nelson it would be smarter to ship over land. So, join me in taking a look at the positives and negatives of sea transportation... First, we will look at the positives of sea transportation:

  • Sea transportation gives you the ability to ship a lot of products across the oceans to other countries. Besides just a larger quantity of goods being transported, sea transport allows items that are more bulky to be transported easier thanks to transporting containers.
  • Sea transportation can be more cost effective for a number of reasons, like the maintenance cost of the actual transportation ships is less than road and rail transport.
  • When transporting your items you might take into account for natural disasters, like flooding, snow, heavy rain, etc. When you transport your items by way of sea most natural disasters (with the exception of hurricanes and tsunamis) won’t have an effect on your shipping.

Now, the negatives of sea transportation:

  • The speed of sea transportation is s..l..o..w.. what might take days to transport through the air or even over the land might take up to a few months to transport via sea transportation.
  • Because sea transport takes so long there is a larger window of opportunities for things to happen to make this form of transport a little riskier.

As with anything when you decide to ship there are a few different factors to look at before deciding on the method to ship. Sit down and consider how long you have until the items need to be at their destination, determine how large of an order you are shipping, how much that order weighs, and then look at the budget you have for shipping. All these things can help you make an informed choice when choosing which method to ship with.