American members of the Container Shipping Information Service will be celebrating National Maritime Day tomorrow and plan to increase the awareness of the important role played by the structures, by asking people to imagine daily life without the products which are transported to them by these. This is sure to press home how much we all rely of the shipping industry and in many ways represent the structures which our lives depend on.

National Maritime Day was declared in the US seventy five years ago and provided an opportunity for the country to recognize the importance of the industry.

It is a striking fact that trade conducted with other countries represents a quarter of the American GDP, and yet the industry is relatively unknown to the average person in the street. Many people assume that products just arrive on shelves within the supermarkets without actually realising the vast journey which they have made for our consumption.

When National Maritime Day was declared back in 1933, the aim was to increase the awareness of the international shipping industry. However, it could never have been predicted that the industry would grow so quickly in a relatively short period of time, to the extent that we can now enjoy almost any product in the world at fairly cheap prices.

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