Ocean cargo services are the backbone of global trade, enabling goods to be shipped by sea in their thousands. Ocean cargo services involve the loading into container vessels, dry bulk ships and ships carrying break-bulk cargoes of goods from ports for discharge at another. High-tech features of modern ocean cargo services include both container tracking systems and automated operations in terminals-which ensure that whatever goes through one end will come out the other end undamaged. Such improvements reduce the time taken to transport cargo and increase its visibility. Fields in which ocean cargo services are applied are around shipping consumer goods and finished products, as well as getting bulky pieces of machinery or perishables transported across the globe. The extensive network of shipping lanes provides links used by industries everywhere to tap into world markets, thus helping the world trade on an unprecedented scale.