The Shipbuilding Industry

The shipbuilding sector is one of the most important and complex in the world economy, in particular as regards maritime transport.

Merchant transport is a fundamental component of the transport infrastructure, both in inland and maritime waters, and is essential in world trade, since it is through the sea that fuels, natural resources, chemicals, agricultural products and consumer goods travel, coming from producer countries and directed to consumer countries placed between them at the most disparate distances.