Ontario Container Transport Shipping Goods around the World | Page 5

Sea vs. Air
Due to the expanse of global trade most companies are now looking for ways to make profit by reducing their
operational costs. A significant operational cost in any business is in supporting their supply-chain. If that supply
chain is global then they must ensure that the freight costs are as low as possible relative to the consignment
being shipped. A business planning and then reducing transportation costs by utilizing economy of scale will
allow them to reduce operational costs, which subsequently will lead to improved profitability. Shipping by sea
allows this for modern container ships are behemoths of the ocean and being so huge can carry vast sizes of
cargo something even the largest cargo airplane cannot do. As a result sea transport has the huge advantage of
scale and can carry even the largest cargo or importantly even the smallest.