Norway, one of the world’s largest and most advanced ship-owning nations, has been a major player in the world’s oceans for over 150 years. It controls over 3% of global carrying capacity. Norway, the small and sparsely populated nation, located on the edge of...

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Occupying the fourth position on the list of the Top ‘Ship-Owning Nations’, Singapore is a city-state located on a small island; a country and a city, all rolled into one, in maritime Southeast Asia. It is a country located about one degree of latitude (137 kilometers...

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The next one on the list of ‘Top Ship-owning Nations’ – China – has been playing an increasingly crucial role in the global shipping industry, dominantly controlling the world’s second-largest shipping fleet of more than 5,600 vessels, totalling a capacity of 270...

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Japan, an island country is the second largest shipowning country in our series. It is a maritime nation located in Northeast Asia, surrounded on all sides by the sea and is also the first non-Western nation to modernize through its own efforts. Japan’s now modern...

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After a whole amazing and informative series- ‘The Series of Shipping Canals’, we have come up with another interesting and enjoyable sequence which will tell you a lot more about the competition between ship-owning countries that how they have been pushing each other...

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China was among the first countries to use waterway transportation and the Grand Canal, also known as the Jing–Hang Grand Canal which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site was built. It was built for Chinese regimes to transport surplus grain from the agriculturally rich...

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