Maritime Transportation And Shipping Talk

Maritime Transportation has always been a dominant factor in Global Trading. Looking back through History we can see maritime transportation by the Egyptians as early as around 3200 BC. It is said that they had Maritime Trade Routs going as far as Sumatra (Indonesia). All maritime transportation depended on the wind until the mid 19th century when mechanized ships started with the arrival of the first Steam Engine. It is a belief that the first steam engine was built back in 1690 by the French inventor Denis Papin. The first known steam engine in a boat was in 1704 by the same inventor. The arrival of the steam engine in ships made for a gradual replacement of the sail ships. All of a sudden man was not depending on the flow of the wind anymore. It was the beginning of better and more efficient maritime transportation

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