Singapore's+Ports

= Singapore's Ports = As a relatively small island, Singapore has managed to create great economical success and maintain a low poverty rate. One way this success has occurred is through it's shipping ports. Through it's two major ports, PSA and Jurong Port, Singapore has been able to train and employ thousands of it's citizens.



This wide spread and many career faceted business is critically important for the island lacking in land and natural resources.Singapore's ports are also a necessity in the fact that they allow resources to be shipped in for later re-exporting after refinement.

The two ports offer services such as cargo handling, warehousing, distribution, bunkering and ship supplies. Bunkering is a term used describing supplying a ship with fuel.

Between the two ports, they make Singapore the world's busiest country in terms of total shipping tonnage. Also, half of the world's annual supply crude oil travels through this country's ports.



The port of PSA employs over 6,000 people at any time, and their institute trains over 20,000 people annually. Training can include these occupations, PSA staff, contractors, the logistics and stevedoring community, shipmasters, overseas pilots, harbour masters and marine officers.



Information: [|NY Times: Neighbors Struggle to Become Competitors : Singapore Port Holds Its Edge (1996)] [|Singapore Mirror: The Port of Singapore] [|PSA Port] [|Jurong Port] Brunn, Stanley D., Mauteen Hays-Mitchell, and Donald J. Zeigler. //Cities of the World//. 4th ed. New York: Rowman & Littlefirld Publishers, Inc., 2008. Print