EL Storyboard Port of Singapore by xu sunny https://padlet.com/sunnyxujiahe2001/fxbhd5ys4z8c Done by: Sunny, Shirley, Sophie, Shomaya en-us 2017-08-05 01:40:09 UTC 2023-06-19 10:42:30 UTC hello@padlet.com sunnyxujiahe2001 https://padlet.com/sunnyxujiahe2001/fxbhd5ys4z8c/wish/180156893 On average Singapore attracts 130,000 vessel calls annually. The quality, efficiency, competitiveness and reliability of its port and shipping services make it the preferred international port of call.]]> 2017-08-05 01:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sunnyxujiahe2001/fxbhd5ys4z8c/wish/180156893 Challenges Ahead sunnyxujiahe2001 https://padlet.com/sunnyxujiahe2001/fxbhd5ys4z8c/wish/180156896 There is a greater demand on the yard space - how do we ensure that these are turned around quicker, maintaining our competitiveness. The challenge we see will be greater competition, because we have got every port building their infrastructure, there will be competition and what should our response be to the competition. Looking ahead, all terminals will move to a megaport in Tuas by the end of the next decade.

]]> 2017-08-05 01:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sunnyxujiahe2001/fxbhd5ys4z8c/wish/180156896 sunnyxujiahe2001 https://padlet.com/sunnyxujiahe2001/fxbhd5ys4z8c/wish/180156897 The opening of the new harbour, later renamed Keppel Harbour, the opening of trade with Siam in the middle of the 1850s, the arrival of the first steamships in Singapore from the mid-1840s onward, the abolition of the British East India Company, and the founding of the Straits Settlements in 1867, and the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.
"With these developments, Singapore was emerging as an important calling station between India and West Asia in general and the Far East."
]]> 2017-08-05 01:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sunnyxujiahe2001/fxbhd5ys4z8c/wish/180156897 How Singapore's port helped change the country's economy? sunnyxujiahe2001 https://padlet.com/sunnyxujiahe2001/fxbhd5ys4z8c/wish/180156898 The port of Singapore has played an important role in shaping the country's economy, bringing it from a sleepy trading post to a first world economy in one generation. Today, Singapore's maritime industry contributes about 7 per cent to the country's GDP.

]]> 2017-08-05 01:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sunnyxujiahe2001/fxbhd5ys4z8c/wish/180156898 Strategic location sunnyxujiahe2001 https://padlet.com/sunnyxujiahe2001/fxbhd5ys4z8c/wish/180156899 Global meeting place:
With its world class infrastructure, excellent range of conference and hospitality venues and services,it is the center of the hub and spoke system.]]> 2017-08-05 01:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sunnyxujiahe2001/fxbhd5ys4z8c/wish/180156899 Cruise Business sunnyxujiahe2001 https://padlet.com/sunnyxujiahe2001/fxbhd5ys4z8c/wish/180156900 Port of Singapore also has a terminal for cruise ships. Such cruise lines that home port there include Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean, Holland America Line, and more. Princess will have the place as largest deployment by a premium cruise line when it deploys Sapphire Princess on three- to eleven-day roundtrip cruises to Asia. More than 40,000 passengers will be sailing on those cruises from November 2014 to February 2015. Stationing the ship in port will bring $50 million under contribution while Princess responds to a growing interest for Singapore-based cruises.]]> 2017-08-05 01:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sunnyxujiahe2001/fxbhd5ys4z8c/wish/180156900 sunnyxujiahe2001 https://padlet.com/sunnyxujiahe2001/fxbhd5ys4z8c/wish/180156901 The port is the world 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.]]> 2017-08-05 01:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sunnyxujiahe2001/fxbhd5ys4z8c/wish/180156901 Introduction sunnyxujiahe2001 https://padlet.com/sunnyxujiahe2001/fxbhd5ys4z8c/wish/180156903 The Port of Singapore refers to the collective facilities and terminals that conduct maritime trade handling functions in harbours and which handle Singapore's shipping.  Currently the world's second-busiest port in terms of total shipping tonnage.]]> 2017-08-05 01:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sunnyxujiahe2001/fxbhd5ys4z8c/wish/180156903