Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. [transportation and related concepts]
5. transportation
6. water transport

Anotations

Scope note:

A term historically applied in a general sense to the trade carried on between ports of the same country as distinguished from that carried on with foreign ports. Also called intercoastal navigation. According to the laws of some maritime nations, the term is also applied to the trade carried within the geographical limits of the foreign trade. The modern term "short sea shipping" refers to the movement of cargo and passengers mainly by sea along a coast, without crossing an ocean.