Singapore
Topic: International Trade: Patterns, Ports and the WTO · NCERT: Class 12, Ch 7 "Transport and Communication"; Class 12, Ch 8 "International Trade"
Meaning
Singapore is a city-state port on the Strait of Malacca, between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. It began as a port of call, a stop where ships take on fuel, water and food, on the route between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. It is also an entrepot for Asia, a port that collects goods from many countries and re-exports them. Today it is one of the world's busiest container ports.
Example
Singapore is a major container transshipment hub, a port where containers are moved from one ship to another. Large ships drop off containers there, and smaller ships carry them on to nearby ports in Asia.
Don't confuse with
- Port of call and entrepot: these are two different types of port. Singapore is an example of both, so neither word fully describes it on its own.
Related concepts
- Industrial port
- Commercial port
- Comprehensive port
- Inland port
- Out port
- Oil port
- Port of call
- Packet station
- Entrepot port
- Naval port