Relationship
of SMS Varanasi with Singapore Port Authorities
SMS Varanasi has developed sound relationship with the
authorities, Port of Singapore for providing better exposure
to their students at international platform.
About Singapore Port:
The Port of Singapore refers to the collective facilities
and terminals that conduct maritime trade handling functions
in Singapore’s harbors and which handle Singapore's
shipping. Currently the world’s busiest port in terms
of total shipping tonnage, it also transships a fifth of
the world's shipping containers as the world’s busiest
port, half of the world's annual supply of crude oil and
is the world’s busiest transshipment port It was also
the busiest port in terms of total cargo handled until 2005,
when it was surpassed by the Port of Shanghai. Thousands
of ships drop anchor in the harbour, connecting the port
to over 600 other ports in 123 countries and spread over
six continents.
The port is the world’s busiest port in terms of
shipping tonnage handled, with 1.15 billion gross tons (GT)
handled in 2005. In terms of cargo tonnage, Singapore is
behind Shanghai with 423 million freight tons handled. The
port retains its position as the world's busiest hub for
transshipment traffic in 2005, and is also the world's biggest
bunkering hub, with 25 million tonnes sold in the same year.
Singapore is ranked first globally in 2005 in terms of
containerized traffic, with 23.2 million Twenty Equivalent
Unit (TEUs) handled. High growth in containerized traffic
has seen the port overtaking Hong Kong since the first quarter
of 2005, and has led the race ever since, with an estimated
19,335 TEUs handled in the year up to October, compared
to 18,640 TEUs handled in Hong Kong in the same period.
A rise in regional traffic consolidating the port's position
in Southeast Asia, and increases in transshipment traffic
using the strategic East Asia-Europe route via Singapore
helped the port to emerge tops at the end of the year, a
title it had not held since overtaking Hong Kong once in
1998.
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