Sea Of Chances

When Christopher Columbus made his first voyage to the new world in 1492, he was travelling in a carrack, a sailing ship. A lot has changed since then.

A Genoese employed by Spain, Christopher Columbus 1451-1500, made his first non-stop transatlantic voyage from the Canary Islands to the West Indies in 1492. He crossed again in 1493, in 1498 and again in 1502 with his last voyage to the mainland at Belen on the Isthmus of Panama. At that time, wood, was used to contruct vessels. Admiral Cheng Ho arrived in Malacca from China in vessels made of wood too.

In shipbuilding, metal, especially steel has overtaken wood as the main material for construction although wood is still being used today. The modern shipping industry is large.

But in the past, Christopher Columbus's voyages were large by time, and his fleet ventured into unknown waters in 1492 with the vessel, Santa Maria and the other two were the Pinta and the Nina.

The shipping industry is larger today as it has already been large nearly 100 years ago when the RMS Titanic sank on 15 April 1912.



Undergoing the process of renewal, home to the seven of the world's top 10 precision shipyards is South Korea and next in position is China.