Packet station
Also called: Ferry port · Topic: International Trade: Patterns, Ports and the WTO · NCERT: Class 12, Ch 8 "International Trade"
Meaning
A packet station, also called a ferry port, carries only passengers and mail over short stretches of water. It does not handle bulk cargo. Packet stations come in pairs that face each other across a narrow sea, with ferries running back and forth between them. They make short sea crossings quick and regular.
Example
Dover in England and Calais in France are a pair of packet stations. They face each other across the English Channel at its narrowest part.
Don't confuse with
- Port of call: a stop on a long ocean route where ships take on fuel, water and food. A packet station serves short, back-and-forth crossings.
Related concepts
- Industrial port
- Commercial port
- Comprehensive port
- Inland port
- Out port
- Oil port
- Port of call
- Entrepot port
- Naval port
- Rotterdam