The movement of goods and/or passengers using merchant ships on journeys undertaken wholly or partly at sea.
Note: This definition includes:
- The one-port transport, i.e. the movement of goods shipped to offshore installations, or for dumping at sea, or reclaimed from the seabed and unloaded in port;
- Bunker oil shipped to vessels offshore;
- Fluvio-maritime movement of goods and/or passengers by merchant ships.
Excluded are:
- Bunkers and stores supplied to vessels in port;
- Movement of goods and/or passengers on inland waterways vessels between seaports and inland waterway ports (it is included in inland waterway transport);
- Movement of goods carried internally between different basins or docks of the same port.