ABSTRACT
From its modest origins, maritime transportation has always been the dominant support of global trade. Therewithal, the importance of maritime transportation increases in parallel with technologic evolutions, technical improvements and economic development of countries. High level of economic growth, industrialization, technological evolutions and urbanization for developed countries result in an increase in energy demand. It was determined that in 2005, 86% of primary energy demand in the world supplied from petroleum and derivatives. Therefore, maritime transportation is the most important transportation mode for transferring of petroleum and its derivatives to procure energy demand. With the current data illustrated that transportation of fossil fuels by seaway reached approximately twenty seven billion tons in the year 2007 (UNCTAD, 2007).
