Kitap Açıklaması Increasing trade volume and diversity of goods movements around the world have brought to the forefront the practical and high quality transfer of products

Today many different products can be carried with different types of containers on the international scale

Modal transport is used in the transportation today where at least two of transport systems i

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road transport rail transport air transport sea transport pipelines are used

However especially sea transport is used in international transportation that's why the containerization is called industrialization of maritime transport

In this study primarily general information is given about container description history of container transportation container types container ships ports and handling equipment and evaluation is made about container shipping and ports in the World and in Turkey

The effect of container shipping on the economy is considerable

In order to examine the presence of this effect relationship between container shipping and economic growth in Turkey is examined by using the quarterly data between 2004Q12017Q3 by means of several econometric methods

As a result of co-integration tests the existence of a positive bi-directional relationship has been found between TEU-type total handling which represents the container transportation in the long run andreal GDP (Gross Domestic Product) which represents representing economic growth

 As a result of the Granger causality test -although the sign of the relationship is not clear in the short term it has been understood that actual changes in income affect the changes in the total handling

As a result of the impulse response analyze the effect of change in real income have always positive effect on total handling except for the 5th and 6th periods; as a result of the variance degradation

69percentage of change in total handling is explained by variable itself and 31 percentage is explained by reel GDP

It is concluded that there i